Sony pronounces the PS5 Professional with a bigger GPU, superior ray tracing, and AI upscaling

The PS5 Professional is official. After months of leaks, Sony simply introduced a extra highly effective PS5 console throughout a particular technical presentation. Mark Cerny, the lead architect of the PS5 console, says the PS5 Professional improves on the unique console in three key methods: a bigger GPU, superior ray tracing, and customized AI-driven upscaling.

The PS5 Professional will launch on November seventh, priced at $699.99, and it seems much like the slim model of the PS5 — identical to current leaks urged it might. It has three stripes down the aspect, and it doesn’t include a disc drive.

The {hardware} upgrades inside will lead to 45 p.c sooner rendering, in accordance with Cerny, and may enhance the element of sure video games and body charges. One of many key causes for the PS5 Professional is to permit PS5 Professional gamers to not have to decide on efficiency modes over constancy ones. “Gamers are selecting efficiency about three quarters of the time,” says Cerny.

Sony has upgraded the GPU contained in the PS5 Professional with 67 p.c extra compute items that the present PS5 console, and it has 28 p.c sooner reminiscence, too. That each one provides as much as the 45 p.c sooner rendering of video games.

This additional energy ought to enhance ray-traced video games, with Sony suggesting that builders will be capable to enable “the rays to be solid at double, and at occasions triple, the speeds of the present PS5 console.”

The PS5 Professional additionally consists of Sony’s new AI-powered PlayStation Spectral Tremendous Decision (PSSR) function, which is basically an upscaling method much like Nvidia’s DLSS or AMD’s FSR to enhance body charges and picture high quality for PlayStation video games. This tradition PSSR upscaling is designed to exchange a sport’s present temporal anti-aliasing or upsampling implementation.