Remember last month’s PS5 Pro video from YouTuber Moore’s Law is Dead? This video is no longer available following a copyright strike from Sony.
We reported on the video from the known tech YouTuber following its release last month. In the video, the YouTuber shared a document about Sony’s upgraded PS5 model that offered new details and information about the console. Interesting new details include substantially faster rendering, up to three times improved ray tracing performance, and Sony’s rumored own upscaling tech – PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR). According to Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry, this upscaling tech can allow for greatly improved image quality of existing PS5 titles. In addition, the outlet suggested that the Pro model will offer 1.2GB of additional RAM for games.
Fast forward one month and the video from ‘Moore’s Law is Dead’ is no longer available on YouTube. “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Sony Interactive Entertainment”, the link to the video now reads. While this doesn’t necessarily mean that the information or details mentioned in the video were the real deal, recent reports, and rumors do seem to indicate that the leaked document was legit. Over the weekend, The Verge’s Tom Warren said that the PS5 Pro is real, and Sony is reportedly asking developers to get their games ready over the summer. Down below we’ve included the rumored specs of the PS5 Pro that came out of the alleged leaked document from Moore’s Law is Dead:
- 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.
