“Sharper and crispier”: Sony officially introduces PlayStation 5 Pro

For a long time the kitchenLeaks brought alleged facts to the public – now it is official: Mark Cerny, Lead Architect of the PlayStation5gave the community a glimpse behind the scenes of the upcoming PS5 upgrade with the established nickname “Pro” in a nine-minute stream on the PlayStation YouTube channel.

In addition to the technical innovations and the design of the new console were also Game scenes Shown, which was intended to demonstrate the graphic difference between the first generation of the PS5 and the upcoming Pro variant. The release date and price of the PS5 Pro were also announced.

When it debuted in 2020, the current generation of PS5 already offered the opportunity to play hundreds of Characters simultaneously and display the action at up to 120 frames per second. However, according to Mark Cerny, the decision between Fidelity mode with high resolution and 30 frames per second on one page and Performance mode with usually 60 frames per second, but with less details for player be difficult.

The PS5 Pro is supposed to remedy this. According to Cerny, it is “one of the… Main objectives for the PlayStation5 Pro, to make this decision unnecessarily or at least the Difference The best of both worlds – “the graphics that game designers want with the high frame rates that gamers prefer”.

The big three

Mark Cerny speaks of the “big three” and means three ComponentsThanks to which the PS5 Pro offers substantial improvements in Comparison to the original of console First, the GPU was larger (67 percent more compute units) and the RAM speed was increased by 28 percent. The Result allows rendering that is up to 45 percent faster than the first generation PS5 console.

Ray tracing has also been improved and is now dying speed this Calculations I am Comparison double or even triple the price of the original PS5.

The third aspect that projection through technology: AI technology for upscaling. An AI library calls PlayStation Spectral Super resolution (PSSR) Analyzes game graphics pixel by pixel and, according to Mark Cerny, can deliver a remarkable increase in the level of detail and a boost to the effective resolution.

All of this together allows for the same level of attention to detail as you would expect from Fidelity mode, while at the same time offering double the frame rate. To understand this, comparison scenes were shown using split screen. On one side, the PS5 graphics were shown, on the other, the PS5 Pro graphics. The games used for illustration purposes included “The Last of Us 2,” “Marvel Spider-Man,” “Ratchet and Clank,” “Hogwarts Legacy,” “Gran Turismo 7,” and “Horizon: Forbidden West.” Mark Cerny called the PS5 Pro graphics “sharper and crispier.”

Downside: More expensive than expected

Fun for ambitious player will be the PlayStation5 Pro in any case – but it is expensive. At 799 euros (and 699 US dollars in the USA) the price is console significantly more expensive than all previous Sony consoles at launch.

The PS5 upgrade will be released well before the Christmas time – on 7 November.

PS5 Pro Technical Presentation

PS5 Pro Technical Presentation

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