PS5 Pro – Everything we now know about the souped up PlayStation 5

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After months and months of rumours and speculation, Sony has finally taken the wraps off the PlayStation 5 Pro, a mid-generation spec bump that aims to banish the choice between Fidelity mode and Performance modes. Here’s what we now know about the PS5 Pro.

One of the main things to know about the PS5 Pro is when it’s coming out and how much it will cost. The launch date for the PS5 Pro is set for 7th November 2024. Pre-orders will go live on 26th September 2024.

As for the cost, I hope you’ve been saving up, because it will set you back $700 / £700 /€800 / ¥120,000.

Note that this is a disc-less console at that price, with support for the optional UHD drive add-on debuted alongside the PS5 Slim. It’s also a horizontal console unless you fork out for a vertical stand.

Mark Cerny did not provide a full spec sheet, but this is an extension of the base PS5. In other words, it will still have the same 8 core Zen 2 CPU (potentially clocked a little bit higher), 16GB of RAM, us the Tempest 3D AudioTech engine, allow you to slot in an extra NVMe drive, and more. The console is roughly the same height as the original PS5, with the width of the PS5 Slim.

Here’s where it’s improved and upgraded:

The 67% increase in GPU compute units, fed by a 28% increase in RAM speed allows for roughly 45% increase in GPU performance. However, there’s much more to it than that.

The enhanced GPU also comes alongside improved ray-tracing that can offer 2-3x the performance of the base PS5. It’s not clear if this is entirely down to the GPU, or if it’s going hand-in-hand with the PSSR processor. Still, that’s quite an impressive bump.

But what does this all mean for your gaming?

Developers will be able to use all of this power in a number of ways. Mark Cerny stated that Sony’s goal was to effectively remove the need for graphics modes, so numerous games will be upgraded to provide Fidelity Mode graphics at Performance Mode frame rates – examples included The Last of Us Part 2, Spider-Man 2 and Ratchet &