The PlayStation 5 Professional has at all times been a machine for hardcore graphical lovers, with a hefty $700 price ticket and proprietary upscaling know-how referred to as PlayStation Spectral Tremendous Decision (PSSR). PlayStation is now doubling down on that market by making the PS5 Professional much more of a technological powerhouse by implementing one thing extra like AMD’s current FSR 4 know-how in 2026.
The information comes from tech web site Digital Foundry’s interview with PlayStation know-how guru and lead system architect Mark Cerny, who confirmed that PSSR shall be evolving into a brand new type that extra carefully resembles FSR 4 subsequent 12 months as a part of the Amethyst collaboration between Sony and AMD.
“Our goal is to have one thing similar to FSR 4’s upscaler obtainable on PS5 Professional for 2026 titles as the subsequent evolution of PSSR,” Cerny says.
The foundations of FSR, which makes use of machine studying to immediately upscale photos bypassing any {hardware} efficiency and upscaling a 720p picture to 4K and is a hybrid of CNN and transformer fashions, had been birthed from the collaborative efforts of Sony and AMD and the PS5 Professional was seemingly constructed with this improve in thoughts. It could take a short time for video games to make the most of this particular implementation, although.
Whereas PlayStation continues to be within the implementation section for FSR 4, they’re nonetheless encouraging builders to make use of PSSR on the PS5 Professional. Whereas this can seemingly see some use within the close to future on at present obtainable {hardware}, it’s not troublesome to see that Sony is wanting towards the longer term and the subsequent era of consoles with these steps. Implementation utilizing the PlayStation 5 continues to be preserving one foot firmly grounded whereas they dip their toes in with additional collaborating.
For a theoretical PlayStation 6, we would even see one thing that’s not just like FSR 4, however precise implementation of FSR 4. Or even perhaps a PSSR 2 that leapfrogs it totally.
