Alleged PlayStation 5 Pro specs have leaked online and indicate a significant increase in power offered by Sony's as-yet-unconfirmed mid-gen console.
A recent Moore's Law is Dead YouTube video revealed details about Sony's PS5 Pro, or 'Trinity' as it's supposedly called internally, covering a host of specs and details about the new machine from an internal presentation document.
Some details suggest particularly interesting and exciting performance improvements, with a note in the presentation summarizing the machine's capabilities saying: “When running on Trinity, PlayStation 5 titles can support higher resolution and frame rates.” .
The documents note that the PS5 Pro will be “approximately 45% faster than the standard PlayStation 5” in terms of rendering power, while ray tracing is getting a huge boost of two to four times that of the PS5. standard. Also included are details pointing to a console GPU offering 33.5 teraflops of power; the standard PS5 has 10.28 teraflops. This is a huge jump and represents something we could see generation after generation rather than something incremental, as we saw with the last generation of PS4 Pro.
Elsewhere, away from the numbers, there's also something called “PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution” mentioned in the document, which is said to be Sony's enhancement technology, as well as a “custom architecture for machine learning” and the ” PlayStation machine learning” that could see “support for resolutions up to 8K.”
The information and reports have since been corroborated by Insider Gaming, and IGN also understands that the leaks are legitimate, with both claiming that the leaks come from the Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) developer network.
Naturally, since nothing has been officially confirmed, these should not be taken literally or as evangelical truth. However, if a PS5 Pro console comes close to this kind of performance jump when it launches in late 2024, as rumors suggest, then it will be a significant change for a mid-generation upgrade.
With numbers like these, it's hard not to get excited about what this could indicate for the next phase of gaming consoles.
