Sony’s rumored upgraded PlayStation 5 model, the PS5 Pro, might very well not release later this year.
At least, that’s what reputable leakier Tom Henderson appears to have been suggesting on X some hours ago. When asked about a possible September announcement for the long-rumored Pro model, Henderson replied – “If it releases this year!”. While this doesn’t directly confirm that the PS5 Pro model won’t be launching this year (heck, Sony hasn’t even commented on the model’s existence), this reply is somewhat interesting as Henderson has long been saying that Sony is planning a holiday 2024 release for the Pro model.
Back in March of 2023, Henderson said that Sony was working on a PS5 hardware revision with a release sometime in late 2024. Several months later, in July 2023, Henderson talked about the codename for the PS5 Pro model – Trinity – with a planned release date in November 2024. “Whether or not a PlayStation 5 Pro console is desired enough in the current market remains to be seen, but as of writing, the PlayStation 5 Pro is in development and is targeting a November 2024 release date”, Henderson wrote back then (via Keytogaming).
Some months ago, Henderson again talked about the Pro model, saying the then leaked specs of the console were the real deal. In addition, he said that Sony still appeared to be targeting a Holiday 2024 launch for the beefed-up PS5 console. Whether internal plans at Sony have changed or not remains to be seen at this point. We’ll update you as soon as we learn more about the rumored PS5 Pro model. For now, check out the leaked specs of the console below:
- Larger GPU with faster memory, providing 45% improved performance in rasterized rendering;
- Massively improved ray tracing architecture that should deliver 2-3x speedup over the regular PS5, with peaks of 4x;
- Custom machine learning architecture that supports 300 TOPS (Trillions of Operations Per Second) at 8-bit;
- The ML architecture was built to enable the so-called PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) upscaling technique. The leaked document describes it as Sony’s version of Multi Frame Super Resolution based on the PlayStation Machine Learning (PSML) algorithm. According to the leaked info, PSSR currently supports up to 4K, but there are plans to add 8K support;
- PSSR is an ML-enhanced version of Temporal Anti-aliasing Upscaling (TAAU) that requires similar inputs to NVIDIA DLSS or AMD FSR and fully supports High Dynamic Range (HDR) pipelines. Moreover, no per-game training is required, just like with the latest version of DLSS. The document goes on to say PSSR requires just 250MB of the PS5 Pro’s memory, with a current rendering cost of 2 milliseconds to upscale from Full HD to 4K, although optimization is still ongoing;
- The document also includes an image comparison with TAAU and AMD FSR 2, reportedly showing that PSSR offers superior image quality.
