The main attraction is PSSR scaling and significantly higher performance.
Today, Sony held a short tech presentation featuring Mark Cerny, the chief architect of the PS4 and PS5 consoles. The main theme was clear: a year after the release of the slim version, Sony’s current console will get an improved model in the form of the PS5 Pro. But what good will it do, and when will it arrive? Let’s discuss everything in order. Let’s start with what Mark Cerny calls the “big three.”
Better graphics performance
According to Cerny, gamers often have to choose between quality and performance mode, but with the arrival of the PS5 Pro, this should change. The first factor that will help this is pure rasterization performance, which will be around 45% higherOverall, the console has 67% more processors and 28% faster memory than the base PS5.
Improved Ray Tracing
However, rasterization is not the only important thing these days, so Cerny has put a lot of emphasis on ray tracing, which is used for shadows, reflections, and overall lighting. Compared to the base PS5, the Pro version has more to offer beam calculations at double, sometimes triple speed.
PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution
This is perhaps the main attraction. custom scaling in the form of PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, or PSSR, which should deliver higher image quality than AMD’s FSR, which is primarily used on consoles. PSSR, like Nvidia’s DLSS, uses machine learning.
PS5 Pro Enhanced
In addition to Cerny’s keynote, the presentation also focused on games. We already know the first few games that will benefit from the improved performance and new features, and these are first-party and third-party games. Enhanced games can be identified by the PS5 Pro Enhanced icon next to their title.
FF7 Rebirth Extended Edition Screenshot | Source: Square Enix
From a post on the PlayStation Blog, we learned about these games:
- Alan Wake 2
- Assassin’s Creed: Shadows
- Demon’s Souls
- Dragon’s Dogma 2
- Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth
- Gran Turismo 7
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Marvel Spider-Man 2
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
- Motofestival “Ekipazh”
- First descendant
- The Last of Us Part II Update.
Game Boost for PS5 Pro
The new model will benefit more than just new games. At the same time, Sony introduced the PS5 Pro Game Boost feature, which will apply to more than 8500 games from PS4This feature is designed to provide more stable performance and, in some games, higher resolution.
Other characteristics
The console will support the modern standard Wi-Fi 7. Of course, VRR hasn’t disappeared again and this time, unlike the base model, there will actually be support 8K games.
Price and release date
The PS5 Pro will therefore be a significantly more powerful device than the base model, but this has a big impact on the price, which is higher than we expected, at least in Europe. It is set for 799 eurowhere is this version without mechanicsIt will be purchased separately, it should be a replacement case that is also used in the PS5 Slim.
Of course, the DualSense controller will be included, and the console itself will offer it right away. 2TB storagei.e. more than twice as much as the base model. The Astro’s Playroom game, which was already pre-installed in the base version, will not be superfluous either.
PlayStation 5 Pro Goes on Sale November 7Pre-orders begin on September 26th.
Source : Zing
