After months of speculation, Sony has revealed the PlayStation 5 specs for all to see. Just a few days after the Xbox Series X reveal, Sony has done the same with its next-gen PS5.
The in-depth Road to PlayStation 5 Livestream saw PlayStation 5 lead system architect Mark Cerney detail the thinking behind the evolution from PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 5.
• CPU: 8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.5GHz (variable frequency)
• GPU: 10.28 TFLOPs, 36 CUs at 2.23GHz (variable frequency)
• GPU Architecture: Custom RDNA 2 Custom GCN
• Memory/Interface: 16GB GDDR6/256-bit
• Memory Bandwidth: 448GB/s
• Internal Storage Custom: 825GB SSD
• IO Throughput: 5.5GB/s (Raw), Typical 8-9GB/s (Compressed)
• Expandable Storage: NVMe SSD Slot
• External Storage: USB HDD Support
• Optical Drive: 4K UHD Blu-ray Drive
While the PlayStation 5 specs do trade blows with the Xbox Series X specs, PlayStation’s console does have a noticeably lower GPU in terms of raw teraflops. However, with Playstation 4 being the key commercial victor for this generation, games will be designed with Playstation 5 as their target.
VIDEO Of course, with the PlayStation 5’s massive gap in generational growth on the silicon level, these specs are not directly comparable to PlayStation 4. For example, if both GPUs were a single teraflop, the later generation would still have a considerable gulf in power difference.
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