While the PlayStation 5 Pro has just taken off, Sony’s next console is most likely already being developed by the manufacturer’s engineers. And logically, the first rumors about this console that we will call PlayStation 6 for the moment are starting to appear.
According to the famous leaker Kepler L2, the overall design of the central processor of the next Sony console is already completed and in the validation phase, a step intended to verify the logical behavior of the chip before its actual engraving. The first prototypes in version (stepping) A0 of the PlayStation 6 SoC should therefore normally see the light of day by the end of the year; they will allow bugs and problems to be tracked directly on the manufactured chips, so that engineers can correct them.
The road is still long for Sony before the launch of a PS6
It will then take many months and probably several successive iterations of prototypes for the final version of the SoC of the future Sony console to be definitively ready and for mass production to be launched, which places a hypothetical launch of the Playstation 6 to the year 2027, at best. Seven years would then separate the launch of the PS6 from that of the PS5, a duration similar to that between the releases of the PlayStation 5 and PS4.
If it is now certain that the processor in question will be of AMD design, the exact architecture of the console’s SoC is still a matter of speculation. We can still strongly expect to find a Zen 5 architecture on the CPU side, and a derivative of the UDNA architecture (GFX13) of the new Radeon 9060/9070 (XT) on the GPU side. Accompanied by GDDR7 memory and engraved in 3 nm, the PS6 processor could also include 3D V-Cache memory.
With such characteristics, the PlayStation 6 would display performance far superior to that of a PS5 Pro. But as always, this increase in power will not guarantee the commercial success of the PS6: it is original and innovative games that make a console legendary.
-???? To not miss any news from 01net, follow us on Google News and WhatsApp.
Source :
Kepler L2 / NeoGAF
Belgium
