Rather than use more modern tech for the PS5 Pro, as was claimed, Sony is apparently sticking with a similar CPU to the standard console.
Last week, YouTube channel RedGamingTech shared alleged new information on Sony’s rumoured PlayStation 5 Pro console, describing it as a ‘4K ray-tracing monster.’
However, they have since changed one detail regarding the console’s CPU, as they claim to have received new info that points to it using some of the same tech as the PlayStation 5.
Despite that, however, it’s still claimed that the PS5 Pro will be roughly twice as powerful as the current model, when it is eventually released.
RedGamingTech initially believed that the PS5 Pro would feature a CPU that makes use of Zen 4 microarchitecture. This launched less than a year ago and while it is used in some gaming PCs, it’s yet to find its way into a video game console.
Instead of the Zen 4, the newer information suggests the PS5 Pro’s CPU is based around the Zen 2 chip – the same one as used in the standard PlayStation 5 console. However, clock frequencies (which refers to CPU speed) will be higher.
RedGamingTech goes into a lot of technobabble but, in layman’s terms, the PS5 Pro has the potential to be twice as powerful as the current model and reach similar levels as a mid to high-range PC.
While Sony itself has never actually acknowledged the PS5 Pro (although it has hinted at it), it being significantly more powerful than the current PS5 feels like a safe assumption.
Reliable insider Tom Henderson has claimed as much as well, saying it’s capable of running games at 8K resolution and has implied that, unlike the current PlayStation 5, it’s capable of displaying games at 4K and 60 frames per second at the same time.
Before any of that, Sony still has to launch the equally unsubstantiated PS5 Slim, which Henderson claims will happen later this year.
Again, Sony hasn’t commented on its existence, so far only focusing on its new remote play device the PlayStation Portal.
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