Although Sony hasn’t officially confirmed a PlayStation 5 Pro, we had a good idea thanks to a series of leaks. An official-looking technical sheet has appeared online (H/T @videotechuk_ on X), which would come from someone who received their console in advance. It is written in Portuguese and reveals a lot of information about Sony’s next console.
For starters, the PlayStation 5 Pro is equipped with an 8-core/16-thread Zen 2 processor from AMD. It is paired with an unspecified RDNA GPU (16.7 TFLOPS). It can be assumed that Sony did not take the generation into account because it contains some elements of the RDNA 4 IP RDNA 4 IP which is not yet official. There’s no doubt that it’s more powerful than the base PlayStation 5’s 10 TFLOPS GPU, but that alone can’t be used as a performance metric.
Additionally, the PlayStation 5 Pro is equipped with 16GB of GDDR6 memory for graphics and 2GB of DDR5 memory for everything else. Sony claims the console can draw up to 390 watts of power at full load, a fraction of what a high-end PC would use. Everything else is pretty much known, including support for Wi-Fi 7, two USB-A ports, two USB-C ports, only one of which is 10Gbps, and a 2TB SSD with a slot Additional M.2 for further expansion.
At first glance, the PlayStation 5 Pro’s hardware seems rather anemic, especially its aging Zen 2 processor. Although the new RDNA 4 GPU can help improve performance, a CPU bottleneck seems inevitable. However, consistent 4K 60 FPS performance (supposedly PSSR-free according to rumor) seems possible without sacrificing visual fidelity, or, if a recent recent leak is to be believed, 1440p 120 FPS. Either way, the PSSR has its work cut out for this generation.
