After the arrival of the PlayStation 5, known informally as “slim,” attention is now focused on the PlayStation 5 Pro, and the same source that announced the arrival of this smaller model confirms that the most powerful console will arrive in 2024.
Insider-Gaming’s Tom Henderson says the PS5 Pro, known internally as the Trinity, is in development and Sony Interactive Entertainment is aiming to hit stores in November 2024. According to him, it will be a more powerful console with hardware created to respond to some of console’s biggest challenges. Current control.
Henderson talks about 30WGPs, 18Gbps GDDR6 with accelerated ray tracing, while ‘Kepler_L2’, another unofficial source of information, reports that the system’s AMD chip is codenamed ‘Viola’. This source also says that the improvement in the processor will be small, and will maintain the Zen2 architecture, with dynamic frequencies reaching a peak of 4.4 GHz. “Kepler_L2” also adds that the CPU will have 64KB of L1 cache per core, 512KB of L2 cache per core, and 8MB of shared L3 cache (4MB per CCX).
Trinity refers to the foundation in 3 main technologies, fast storage compression and decompression, accelerated ray tracing and upscaling. The RDNA3 architecture, with RDNA4 ray tracing enhancements, will contain dedicated hardware to improve ray tracing technology and, with Henderson and Kepler advancing, will feature 16GB of GDDR6 at 18Gbps, and 256-bit memory channel bandwidth at 576Gbps.
These sources confirm that another feature is the XDNA2 NPU, used to improve Sony’s custom temporary upscaling technology, which will take advantage of machine learning to achieve better results. It’s something similar to what the PS4 Pro did on the original PS4, in that the goal is to run games at 4K resolution with better image quality above 30fps.
These two sources are now joined by Jeff Grubb, who primarily comments on the latest information and adds his voice. According to Grubb, the information from Kepler and Henderson is the same as what he heard, and the PS5 Pro will arrive in November 2024 with up to 60% increases in performance.
