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Sony PlayStation 5
An old router, a pound-shop tower fan, a PS2 inside a ringbinder - these are just a few of the things that Sony’s new PlayStation 5 has been compared to since it was unveiled. But as your mum still reminds you, it’s what’s inside that counts; so while the PS5 does look a bit like the beak of a duck/robot hybrid, you’ll forget all about that within a few nanoseconds of turning it on.
With an eight-core 3.5GHz Zen 2-based CPU, 16GB of GDDR6 memory and a custom AMD graphics processor with 10.28 teraflops of pixel-pushing power, it’s got about five times as many teraflops as a PS4. And what else did your mum always use to say? That’s right: you can never have too many teraflops.
Its 825GB SSD works at around 5.5GB/s, which is so fast it’ll load stuff in a fraction of the time you’re used to, plus it’ll work with your PSVR headset and is compatible with almost all PS4 games. So you don’t have to worry if you don’t get round to finishing The Last of Us Part II (see p76 for our review) before the PS5 comes out this Christmas.