The current PlayStation 5 went on sale in November 2020. There’s no successor on the horizon yet, but rumors swirled at Gamescom that the PS5 could receive an update this year. According to a report from WCCFTech , Sony will unveil an update to its console called the PS5 Pro on November 10. It will be in stores just in time to kick off the Christmas shopping season.
New GPU? PS5 Pro's graphics performance should increase significantly
So Sony’s new console should receive a comprehensive update. Technical details haven’t been revealed, but the new console with a larger GPU is said to see a 45 percent performance boost when it comes to rasterization alone. With ray tracing, performance is said to increase two to three times on average, and up to four times at peak levels. Additionally, artificial intelligence (AI), more precisely machine learning (ML), is given much greater importance. The proprietary architecture aims to generate performance of up to 300 TOPS at 8-bit resolution.
The increases suggest that the PS 5 Pro will get an AMD processor that will at least have a new GPU, which will probably no longer be based on the RDNA2 architecture as before. The manufacturer's current laptop chips use CPU cores based on the Zen 5 architecture and the Radeon 890M based on RDNA3.5. RDNA4 will already be used in upcoming GPUs for graphics cards in the 8000 series.
Microsoft's Xbox is falling behind
If the PS5 update is indeed this extensive, it will cast a shadow over the current Xbox. The Redmond company already rolled out an update for the Xbox Series S and Series X a few weeks ago. However, the changes were limited. In addition to the new body colors, the consoles received larger SSDs compared to their predecessors.
This continually fuels rumors that Microsoft is losing interest in consoles. For the next generation of Xbox, Microsoft could rely on the Xbox reference model that manufacturers like Asus can use for their own Xbox controller designs. New approaches are also being explored: Xbox games recently became playable on Amazon’s Fire TV devices.
