Sony is alleged to be engaged on a ‘Professional’ model of the PlayStation 5, aiming for a launch later this yr. Trade analysts had mentioned final month {that a} PS5 Professional with up to date {hardware} capabilities will probably be launched earlier than Grand Theft Auto 6 launches in 2025. Now, a brand new report has detailed the specs of the upcoming console. The leaks reveal that the PS5 Professional will embrace enhancements to system reminiscence, CPU clock pace, along with graphical efficiency.
Insider Gaming reviews that the PS5 Professional’s system reminiscence (576 GB/s) will likely be extra environment friendly than the PS5 (448 GB/s), with a 28 p.c enhance in bandwidth acquire. The ‘Professional’ model of the console will reportedly pack the identical eight-core AMD Zen 2 CPU because the PS5, however will include a ‘Excessive CPU Frequency Mode,’ reaching clock speeds of as much as 3.85GHz — a ten p.c soar over PS5’s 3.5Ghz.
“In Excessive CPU Frequency Mode, extra energy is allotted to the CPU and can downclock the GPU by round 1.5 p.c, leading to roughly 1 p.c decrease GPU efficiency,” the report mentioned.
New leaks additionally counsel audio enhancements for the PS5 Professional, claiming “The ACV within the PlayStation 5 Professional runs at a better clock pace over the usual PlayStation 5, ensuing within the ACM library having 35 p.c extra efficiency.”
The report additionally claims that the PS5 Professional would include a removable disc drive, similar because the slimmer model of the usual PS5, and 1TB storage.
Final week, leaked paperwork from PlayStation developer portal revealed GPU enhancements coming to the PS5 Professional, as effectively. Based on the leak, the brand new console would characteristic 45 p.c sooner rendering than PS5 and “2-3x Ray-tracing (x4 in some instances).” The PS5 Professional would additionally reportedly characteristic as much as 3 times the compute energy of PS5 — 33.5 teraflops of single-precision compute energy in comparison with the PS5’s 10.28 teraflops. For context, Xbox Collection X, which claims to be essentially the most highly effective current-gen console, comes with 12 teraflops of computational energy.
Sony has not but introduced plans for a ‘Professional’ model of the PS5, however the firm launched the PS4 Professional round three years after the unique PS4 was launched in November 2013. So, a PS5 Professional ought to probably hit the market sooner reasonably than later. Sony did launch a slimmer and lighter model of the PS5 with barely larger inside storage and a removable disc drive in November final yr. The PS5 slim retains the unique console’s processing energy, graphical capabilities and pricing.
Final month, business analysts claimed that Sony was readying the PS5 Professional for launch within the second half of 2024 to spice up console gross sales after the corporate’s earnings name revealed that it was set to overlook PS5 gross sales goal for fiscal yr 2023. Analysts consider that Sony intends to have an up to date console prepared forward of the launch of Rockstar Video games’ Grand Theft Auto 6, set to reach someday in 2025. The PS5 has bought over 50 million models since its launch in November 2020.
