PS5 Pro updated rumors/leaks & technical/specs discussion |OT| PS5 Pro Enhanced Requirements Detailed.

[Killer_Sakoman]

If mid-gen is a new pattern, I'll skip out on initial generation hardware and wait 4yrs for mid-gen.

A new console every 3.5 years is not bad. You will be playing new games with best possible performance on static hardware. But at the end, it's a matter of choice. It's up to you, your preference, and your budget.

 

[anonpuffs]

PS5 Pro could be weaker than Ps5, I am still buying Day 1

 

[ethomaz]

Consumerism.

Do you need it? No.
Do you want it? No.
Will you buy it? Yes.

 

[PropellerEar]

If mid-gen is a new pattern, I'll skip out on initial generation hardware and wait 4yrs for mid-gen.

Still much better than PCMR update cycles in so many ways.

 

[Bryank75]

Bryan, shouldn’t you be hating this on general principle, since Jim Ryan greenlit it?

Naaa, I never disliked Jim Ryan. Just some of his ideas.

I got a PS4 Pro and I will get a PS5 Pro, I love new consoles.

 

[Satoru]

Yea, that's the real story.. but it makes sense. It's not going to be a generation ahead of the PS5. Very interesting that they mention hardware RT acceleration. Many people were saying that the PS5/XSX had hardware ray tracing when it didn't have what Nvidia had. It now finally has what Nvidia has designed a long time ago.

What nonsense is this? Both the PS5 and the Series X have hardware accelerated ray tracing. AMD still can't touch Nvidia in RT performance

 

[JAHGamer]

Bryan, shouldn’t you be hating this on general principle, since Jim Ryan greenlit it?

How did Jim greenlight a concept that predates his tenure? Someone else here gave him credit for the Portal. Next you guys are going to give Jim credit for "greenlighting" the PS6

Naaa, I never disliked Jim Ryan. Just some of his ideas.

I did, thank God that dumb hack is gone

 

[Gediminas]

I did, thank God that dumb hack is gone

3 years too late

 

[JAHGamer]

3 years too late

Sadly better late than never though, good riddance

 

[ToTTenTranz]

I wonder how difficult it would be to code a game to take advantage of dual-issue while maintaining compatibility with the regular PS5.

AFAIK there wouldn't be compatibility problems with RDNA2 GPUs by taking advantage of RDNA3's dual-issue.
Those benchmarks are using compute instructions from the Vulkan API which RDNA2 supports as well.
I don't know if these instructions will be very effective on RDNA2 though.

If mid-gen is a new pattern, I'll skip out on initial generation hardware and wait 4yrs for mid-gen.

Why not skip out the whole generation? Just wait for PS6 and it'll probably play PS5 titles better than the PS5 Pro.
Even better, just wait until ~2037 for PS7.

 

[KiryuRealty]

Yeah these leaks are real. Smh now I got to get a pro.

You have time to save up for it!

 

[Danja1187]

PS5 still feels untapped to me. But I understand why they'll do a pro... It's the first generation where I feel the console just hasn't been put to use properly yet... 3 years in... Weird.

 

[Arminius]

Would an X Box Series X Pro be tenable considering the baseline is the Series S?

 

[anonpuffs]

Would an X Box Series X Pro be tenable considering the baseline is the Series S?

The Series X in itself is untenable given that less than half the userbase has one.

 

[Box]

 

[Aceman]

Why not skip out the whole generation? Just wait for PS6 and it'll probably play PS5 titles better than the PS5 Pro.
Even better, just wait until ~2037 for PS7.

The reason I'm inclined to skip is because the mid-gen happens too soon after the initial generation has started and most developers haven't gotten used to the current hardware yet. I would say they need at least 3yrs to get familiar to the APIs to make something exclusive to current-gen instead of cross-gen.

 

[Bryank75]

 

[Yurinka]

These are not teraflops, these are Cerny-flops, far more potent. Far more powerful.

He has a Knack for these things...

I think that with almost the same Cernyflops the games will look way better and specially stunning because of:

• DCSS (Deep Cerny Super Sampling): instead of tensor cores the GPU features tiny Cernys to perform the AI deep learning from the recently acquired iSIZE tech in real time. It upscales from a 16x9 pixels resolution to 8K with better image quality than DLSS5
• Cerny's RT secret (white) sauce to that emits rays from Cerny's celestial aura, generating top tier raytraced real time global illumination which looks miles better than Cyberpunk 2077 path tracing on a GeForce 6090.

Now seriously: I think they'll do another Cerny trick as they did in Vita, PS4 Pro or PS5 to achieve stuff we thought wasn't technically possible with that tech. In this case, related to some new AI based cutting edge super sampling technique and something to get a super cool global illumination even if using "just a few" rays traced.

 

[historia]

@Satoru with a doctor degree in computer engineer and @Yurinka with a doctor degree in game development are here to enlighten us peasants again.

How miraculous.

 

[Satoru]

For the optically challenged. The shot starting at 2:48 is pretty telling if people decide to ignore all other shots:

And if further proof is required regarding SM2' upgrades: