Sony looks set to reveal PS5 Pro as it announces tech live stream for Tuesday

Sony appears set to announce the long-anticipated PlayStation 5 Pro during a presentation on Tuesday.

The company today announced plans to deliver a nine-minute PS5 “technical presentation” hosted by lead system architect Mark Cerny.

The stream will begin on September 10 at 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm BST and will be broadcast in English on the PlayStation YouTube channel.

The presentation “will focus on PS5 and innovations in gaming technology”, according to Sony.

PS5 Pro’s design will look similar to the PS5 Slim, and the console will still be coloured white, according to a recent leak which claimed Sony would announce the console in the first half of September.

The main difference reportedly is the addition of three black stripes across the middle of the console, differentiating it from other PS5 models.

Sony may subsequently have confirmed the leak by including an illustration of the PS5 Pro design in a PlayStation 30th Anniversary announcement last week.

In April, YouTuber Moore’s Law is Dead leaked official Sony documentation explaining the console’s specifications, taken from Sony Interactive Entertainment‘s Developer Network.

The document was verified by other sites including IGN, and was then taken down by a Sony copyright strike, lending further credibility to its authenticity.

The video suggested that the PS5 Pro’s CPU will be identical to that of the standard PS5, but that the new console will have a ‘High CPU Frequency Mode’ which increases the CPU by 10% to 3.85GHz, but reduces GPU performance by around 1% as a result.

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The GPU itself will be powered by 33.5 teraflops versus the PS5’s 10.28 teraflops, but this doesn’t mean it will be more than three times as powerful.

As The Verge noted at the time, changes in AMD’s architecture means it’s difficult to directly compare teraflops directly between PS5 and PS5 Pro, and that in reality the comparison is more like 10.28 versus around 17 teraflops (indeed, the documentation leaked by Moore’s Law is Dead suggests “rendering is about 45% faster”).