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Official PS5 PRO Specs (Finally)

Tqaulity

Tqaulity

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Thanks to some early access users, the final PS5 PRO system specs have leaked straight from the manual. The screenshot below is from
a Brazilian model (embargo be damned oversees) but some interesting highlights here:
  1. GPU is 16.7 TFLOPs (that just the +67% CUs that Sony mentioned). Dual Issue TFLOPS is 16.7 x 2= 33.4 TFLOPS. This seems to confirm that the GPU clock speed is the same as the base (no mention of a boost mode)
  2. Still 8C/16T Zen 2 CPU (we knew this)
  3. Here is something new: an additional 2GB of DDR5 is present for the OS. Total system RAM is now 18GB!
  4. There are still no published clock speeds (probably implying that they are the same)
So on the whole, this is what an additional $250 gets you:
  • 2GB more RAM
  • 28% faster memory
  • 2TB storage
  • 67% larger GPU
  • RDNA 4 advanced ray tracing
  • AI powered PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR)
  • Ultra boost mode for PS4 and PS5 games
  • System wide image enhancement for PS4 titles
  • Wifi 7
  • Bluetooth 5.1
  • Smaller more efficient form factor
Still not worth it?

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Radical_3d

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Lagspike_exe said:
That means the bandwith available to games should also be higher than the advertised, as OS calls to RAM will go to the extra 2GB DDR5 instead.
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That probably explains why in some cases the Pro performs better than expected. Still not sure if this is not fake but big if 16GB @ full speed is true.
 
M1chl

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Currently Gif and Meme Champion
400W peak power draw, that's quite a lot for a console. Well good, I though there is some limitation (I know people were throwing 300W back in 2020) how much you can do with such device. Good to hear
 
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vkbest

Member
SonGoku said:
Very interesting they added 2GB DDR5 possibly to free more GDDR6 for games, i wonder why Cerny didn't mention this
Unless its just the 2TB SSD ram buffer which i think might be

No, this should be $550 at most without drive and feet

Cant wait for AMD to formally announce RDNA4 so we can get in depth information about the Pro GPU
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Surely the system is running in GDDR6 yet, and they are using DDR as cache, like they did in PS4 Pro.
 
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Lagspike_exe

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Radical_3d said:
That probably explains why in some cases the Pro performs better than expected. Still not sure if this is not fake but big if 16GB @ full speed is true.
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I think there were slides somewhere that showed how CPU access influences available GDDR bandwith on PS4. IIRC, any CPU read/write to GDDR actually led to a higher decrease to GDDR BW than the actual CPU read/write due to congestion. As such, switching OS to DDR5 could actually result in quite a bit of an increase to available GDDR bandwith. This should help a lot for BW-limited scenarios.
 
ShakenG

ShakenG

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HeisenbergFX4 said:
Ok so it was May of last year I shared the TF number
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ShakenG said:
Random nobody here.. just throwing in a guess of 15 - 16 TF if we are using that general metric. For reasons i cant explain, maybe a hunch. Im not expecting anything around 20 TF.
And Sony need it to be worthy of a PRO title so it cant be to small of a jump.
(Not expecting 12 -13.)
Im sure ive made guesses in the past but this is where i sit as of now.
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My guess too. 😁

HeisenbergFX4 HeisenbergFX4
 
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Radical_3d

Radical_3d

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Sooooooo…
I was curious and made some quick searches and maths. The 45% increase in performance never added at to me since the 28% increase in memory bandwidth was always going to be the limiting factor. The PS5 allocates 2,5GB for system memory. That’s about 15,6% of the total bandwidth of the system. So about 70GB/s. If you subtract that to the whole memory system the gains are closer to 52% in memory bandwidth, which gets us closer to that 45% figure. Give or take a few inefficiencies and probably that’s where that figure comes from.
 
Killer8

Killer8

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None of it matters.

It could be a supercomputer and people would still bitch and moan because of the sticker shock.

Rational breakdowns of component costs? Who cares. Comparisons with the price of equivalent PC hardware? Ok egghead.

None of that generates clicks like a disgruntled Youtube thumbnail does.

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saintjules

saintjules

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Killer8 said:
None of it matters.

It could be a supercomputer and people would still bitch and moan because of the sticker shock.

Rational breakdowns of component costs? Who cares. Comparisons with the price of equivalent PC hardware? Ok egghead.

None of that generates clicks like a disgruntled Youtube thumbnail does.

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It's called Brokie mentality.

PS. They all have bad breath most likely.
 
Gamerguy84

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Synastry said:
Can someone explain this specs to me in a more simple term? Are they good mild or bad for the price?
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Good for me, for what I expected. If you've got a PS5 basically take quality mode and make it 60fps in most cases. That probably gets better as they go further down the road with PSSR.

Better RT but it's still too taxing on any system. An RT slider for some games so you can balance that out with the amount you.want along with other graphical enhancements.

A 2TB internal NVMe drive.

Pretty good stuff for the opener. I'm most excited for PSSR and what it brings. But.also to play FF7r in better detail and others.

Also something that sharpens PS4 games. I'm not familiar with what this is yet.
 
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Gaiff

Gaiff

SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
SonGoku said:
Very interesting they added 2GB DDR5 possibly to free more GDDR6 for games, i wonder why Cerny didn't mention this
Unless its just the 2TB SSD ram buffer which i think might be

No, this should be $550 at most without drive and feet

Cant wait for AMD to formally announce RDNA4 so we can get in depth information about the Pro GPU
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You're not wrong, but the manufacturing prices keep going up and the customers have to pay the price. I think it's too expensive for what it offers, but it's still the best piece of gaming hardware value-wise.

DinoD said:
Could GPU still be RDNA2 with tacked on RDNA4 RT? Don't shoot me, ok!
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Have it on good authority that PS5 is actually RDNA 0.5 and Pro is RDNA 1.5.
 
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SonGoku

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vkbest said:
Surely the system is running in GDDR6 yet, and they are using DDR as cache, like they did in PS4 Pro.
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That would be the best case scenario, and I hope is the case as that would free precious GDDR6 used by the system to now be available for games
But im wondering that 2GB DDR5 couldn't possibly be the SSD cache? I know for example the 990 Pro 2TB drive uses 2GB DDR4 SDRAM as cache
Xyphie said:
Probably exactly what it is. They have a larger SSD, so they need a larger FTL cache for the controller.
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Yeah it matches 2GB for 2TB capacity ratio SSD companies use
Cant help but think Cerny would have brought it up if it was system ram added to free GDDR6 allocation to games
 
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paolo11

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One thing I want to ask and it’s not important. Are the ps5 pro consoles made all in china or some in Japan like the ps5 base disc?
 
Gaiff

Gaiff

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James Sawyer Ford said:
OS seems fast already, is PS5 Pro even faster?
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Not necessarily. GDDR isn’t that well suited as a memory for system in part due to its much higher latency. It works for consoles due to the much lighter OS. What this could mean is that the PS5 has an extra 2GB of VRAM for the games because now, 2GB of DDR is used for the OS. Instead of 12.5GB available for games, it’ll have 14.5GB. I vaguely recall such a figure during the leaks and we were all wondering where it was coming from since the Pro and regular PS5 both have 16GB of GDDR6.
 
S0ULZB0URNE

S0ULZB0URNE

Member
The two extra gigs of ram is the same speed or is it different like the PS4 Pro which got a additional 1GB?

Also... do the devs still get the additional 1GB freed up or was that said because it had two extra?
If so devs should have a additional 3GB's to work with right?
 
S0ULZB0URNE

S0ULZB0URNE

Member
SonGoku said:
Very interesting they added 2GB DDR5 possibly to free more GDDR6 for games, i wonder why Cerny didn't mention this
Unless its just the 2TB SSD ram buffer which i think might be

No, this should be $550 at most without drive and feet

Cant wait for AMD to formally announce RDNA4 so we can get in depth information about the Pro GPU
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Oh I didn't see this.
So the extra two must be for the OS/UI like the PS4 Pro's extra 1GB.
 
//DEVIL//

//DEVIL//

Member
ShakenG said:
So everyone that disagrees with you and buys this is just a fanboy? Ok.
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Of course not, there are hardcore gamers that buy everything, to others this is their first PS5. but we are not a majority of gamers. casual and fanboys are sadly.

Hope anyone looking towards it enjoys it. I have no ill feelings toward anyone who wants it lol.

I just hope it doesnt have any success in general. sue me lol.

Topher said:
I'm buying it for the upgraded GPU and the ML components so games don't have to look like shit with FSR any more.

That's worth it to me. Not for you?

john green ok GIF
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Whatever makes you happy buddy. dont blame u about the FSR lo. it sucks. here is hoping FSR4 with its AI finally get things decent.
 
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SlimySnake

SlimySnake

Flashless at the Golden Globes
Good on them for using the correct tflops number instead of the inflated one that retards on twitter were using. not to mention AMD themselves.

extra 2GB of ram for os is massive since it opens up the full 16 gb for games. thats fucking huge considering just how much of an issue varm is becoming on PC GPUs.

biggest fuck up is the 28% memory bandwidth upgrade especially since that was the main issue that affected the ps4 pro in several games. the fact that this gpu has 67% more tflops and is resulting in only 45% more performance also indicates a bottleneck somewhere and the memory bottleneck could be it. either that or AMD was right and you need infinity cache to improve performance when increasing CUs.

390 watt power supply means this is likely a 300+ watt console. i wouldnt be surprised if this is on 6nm.
 
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