Sony has introduced its strongest sport console but, the PlayStation 5 Professional, which is an up to date mannequin of the PlayStation 5 that was introduced again in 2020.
Just like the PS4 Professional earlier than it, the PS5 Professional is aimed fully at bettering the graphical constancy of its video games, with three key new enhancements in the direction of that purpose.
The primary of that is an upgraded GPU. Whereas it is nonetheless primarily based on the identical structure, the PS5 Professional GPU now options 67% extra compute items and 28% quicker reminiscence. Sony claims that these modifications present 45% quicker rendering of video games in comparison with the PS5.
The opposite enchancment is to {hardware} accelerated ray tracing. Contemplating AMD graphics depend on their compute items for ray tracing, the rise within the variety of compute items additionally will increase the ray tracing efficiency. Sony claims the PS5 Professional GPU can forged rays at double and even triple the speed of the PS5 GPU.
Lastly, Sony additionally introduced a brand new AI-driven picture upscaling answer that it developed in-house. Known as the PlayStation Spectral Tremendous Decision, it makes use of AI and machine studying to upsample pictures to the next decision. Contemplating that is doubtless a {hardware} accelerated answer, it ought to present higher outcomes than the mediocre software-based AMD FSR know-how that PS5 video games used and ought to be on par with DLSS from Nvidia or XeSS from Intel. Sony did not point out any body technology facet, nevertheless, so this appears to be purely a picture upscaling answer.
Talking in regards to the new {hardware}, PlayStation lead architect Mark Cerny talked about the necessity for a efficiency and high quality toggle inside video games on the PS5, which lets the person decide between excessive body charges or picture high quality. This resulted in customers selecting the efficiency mode 3/4 occasions for higher body charges, which compromised on picture high quality.
The purpose of the PS5 Professional, it appears, was to make this toggle redundant and supply picture high quality that you simply count on from the standard mode at 60FPS, thereby giving one of the best of each worlds.
With the mixture of extra highly effective {hardware} and native picture upscaling, this appears fairly doable, however we must anticipate native assist to reach inside video games to see if the declare holds up. Sony did showcase a handful of first and third occasion titles benefiting from the improved efficiency of the brand new console. Video games optimized for the brand new console will characteristic a PS5 Professional Enhanced label inside.
Sony additionally introduced a brand new PS5 Professional Recreation Enhance characteristic, which might apply to greater than 8500 PS4 titles and increase their decision and body price for the brand new console. The brand new console additionally options Wi-Fi 7 in areas the place it’s supported, in addition to assist for VRR and 8K shows.
The PS5 Professional options solely slight visible modifications from the usual PS5. It is taller than the present slim mannequin however has the identical thickness because the PS5 mannequin with out Blu-ray disc. The PS5 Professional does not have an elective optical disc mannequin, and customers must buy it individually (it is the identical drive obtainable for the PS5). The one comfort right here is that the PS5 Professional contains 2TB inside storage in comparison with 1TB on the usual mannequin.
The PS5 Professional is priced at $700, which is 56% greater than the $450 value of the digital PS5. The console will go on sale later this 12 months on November 7, with pre-orders beginning on September 26.
