PlayStation 5 Pro Zen 2 CPU Is the Most Logical Choice; Console Should Cost Around $100 More Than the PS5 Slim

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The PlayStation 5 Pro is rumored to be powered by a Zen 2 CPU, which is the most logical for the system, according to a rather interesting analysis.

On X/Twitter, LeviathanGamer took a deep look at the leaked specifications of the new system, going over both CPU and GPU. According to the analysis, a CPU belonging to the same architecture as the base PS5 CPU is the one that makes the most sense, as the Zen 3 architecture comes with a performance increase of 16% but with an increase in die size which would be a problem for an APU, pushing up manufacturing costs up and potentially not leading to any true performance benefit for a system that cannot disable CPU cores. It would be the same with a Zen 4 CPU, as the die size increase would create similar issues. A Zen 4c CPU would also not work for the PlayStation 5 Pro, as, while its smaller die size could work for the console, it would require costly reworking to make its 16-core layout work with an 8-core processor. All the performance boosts brought by these newer architectures also wouldn't benefit CPU-bound games that much, making a Zen 2 CPU the most logical choice for the console.

Let us wall through the cost benefit analysis that was likely done for both Zen and RDNA for the PS5 Pro. For Zen, they have the following choices: Zen 2, Zen 3, Zen 4, and Zen 4c. Zen 3 performs 16% better with a 25% larger die size. This is fine for CPUs that can disable...

— LeviathanGamer (@LeviathanGamer2) December 12, 2023

$25. A similar thing occurs with Zen 4 with 33% larger die size than Zen 3 with 33% more performance. Not as bad as Zen 3, but now we are looking at a price increase over $50 compared to Zen 2. Zen 4c has Zen 3 die size, but Zen 4 performance and could potentially be worth