PLAYSTATION 5 GOES PRO
Play everything in fidelity mode at full speed
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a PlayStation 6 for a couple of years, but to tide us over, Sony has the PS5 Pro. It’s pretty much a repeat of the PS4 Pro: a mid-term bump in power, in this case, a 45 percent increase in rendering speed. The new GPU has 67 percent more Compute Units and 28 percent faster memory. According to Sony, the PS5 Pro graphics system is built on three pillars. The first is that upgraded GPU. Second is the advanced ray tracing said to be two to three times faster. Lastly, there’s PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, a fancy name for AI-powered upscaling. This helps the PS5 Pro reach 60fps on many games that would only hit 30fps in fidelity mode on the PS5. We also get Wi-Fi 7, and double the storage at 2TB. There’s no mention of the CPU, so it’s more than likely the same, possibly with a slight clock tweak. The Pro only comes as a digital edition. If you need an optical drive, that’s a separate purchase at $79. The case gains a set of black stripes across its midriff, otherwise it looks the same as the PS5 Digital Edition.