PlayStation 5 Pro: Rumors, specs & speculation
With rumors flying of a potential PlayStation 5 Pro, we go over all of the information out there right now, including speculated release windows, price rumors, and leaked features.
With the PlayStation 5 now four years old, rumors surrounding a potential pro version of the Sony console are well underway. Its predecessor, the PlayStation 4, received its pro upgrade just three years after the original console’s launch, so the PS5 is more than due its “pro” counterpart.
Sony has yet to announce or confirm the existence of the PS5 Pro, but, Insider Gaming, notorious for publishing reports and leaks, has further backed up its report from March that there’s a PS5 Pro on the way.
It’s rumored that Sony is going for a similar strategy as with the PS4 Pro, this time around. Rather than letting the hardware fizzle out over a five to seven-year period, the PS5 Pro would allow Sony to bring in fresher hardware for those who can afford it.
Just remember, everything written here is speculative, and should only be considered rumor for now. With that in mind, here’s everything we know about the PS5 Pro.
Contents
- PS5 Pro release window speculation
- PS5 Pro price speculation
- PS5 Pro specs speculation
- PS5 Pro features speculation
PS5 Pro release window speculation
The PS5 Pro is expected to release in Fall 2024, according to reports. While Sony has yet to officially announce any information regarding the next iteration of the PS5, newly leaked details have emerged which slate the console will be released later this year. Additionally, Dexerto understands that developers have also been briefed on the new console.
These leaked details come from Tom Henderson of The Verge, who accurately predicted PlayStation’s portable streaming device ahead of the announcement. In an article for Insider Gaming published in May 2023, Henderson shared that they can report with “100% degree of certainty” that the PlayStation 5 Pro is currently in development, and that its expected release date is ”Q4 2024.”
Dexerto This would mean the PS5 Pro would be released four years after the initial launch of the PS5. The PS4 Pro, the upgraded version of the previous generation console, launched in November 2016, just three years after the initial launch of the PS4.
PS5 Pro price speculation
We expect the PS5 Pro to be at least $100 more expensive than the standard model of PS5, or at least $600. Amongst all the leaks and rumors, there’s been no mention of what we can expect the price of the PS5 Pro to be. This isn’t surprising given we haven’t even had any direct confirmation from Sony that the PS5 Pro exists in the first place.
It’s all speculative, but the PS5 Pro could cost considerably more than the current PS5 and PS5 Slim disc and digital-only models. Especially to account for all the proposed hardware upgrades.
However, when the PS4 Pro launched on November 10th, 2016, it only cost $399. Despite its better GPU, added to the mix better support for new “performance” modes in certain titles that increased graphical fidelity, its price point was the same as the original PS4 at launch.
PS5 Pro specs speculation
YouTuber Moore’s Law is Dead released a new video outlining the specifications that had supposedly leaked for the PS5 Pro console.
Like with any Moore’s Law is Dead video, the details provided were to be taken with a grain of salt, with the YouTuber being a hit or miss with leaks in the past. However, the video has since been removed from YouTube, following a copyright claim from Sony, lending credence to its contents.
Insider Gaming confirmed that many of the leaked details surrounding the PS5 Pro are accurate. This could be the reasoning behind Sony’s copyright claim, with the tech giant wanting to keep the finer details of the suspected PS5 Pro a secret until an official announcement.
Luckily, we know from the now-deleted video, that the PS5 Pro is slated to release with a 576 GB/s (18GT/s) system memory, a 28% increase over the launch version of the Sony console.
The CPU will allegedly be identical to the PS5 processor, yet the PS5 Pro will come with a ‘High CPU Frequency Mode.’ This mode will push the CPU to 10% higher than the original PS5, taking it up to 3.85GHz. This was later confirmed by The Verge, who further explained that devs will be able to pick the mode during development and have access to 1.2GB more system memory.
Both the launch PS5 and the PS5 Slim, currently have 12.5GB of system memory for devs to utilize. However, Tom Warren explains that Sony has increased this to 13.7GB for the rumored PS5 Pro.
The PS5 Pro is alleged to have a more powerful GPU with an improved rendering, slated to be 45% faster than its predecessor. The PS5 Pro is also said to deliver x2-4 faster ray-tracing performance.
PS5 Pro features speculation
It’s expected that the PS5 Pro will be more powerful in terms of what it can provide graphically, but won’t leave the older console in the dust.
Like with the PS4 Pro, we expect that Sony won’t split the PlayStation user base up depending on the console they happen to have. Every game will come to every version of the console that gets released.
In his leak of the rumored release date for the console, Tom Henderson wrote that power would be a major focus for the new model.
“The PlayStation 5 Pro will be targeting improved and consistent FPS at 4K resolution, a new ‘performance mode’ for 8K resolution, and accelerated ray tracing,” Henderson said.
These rumors are lent credence by a tweet from user Onion00048, who spotted a new patent from PlayStation’s Mark Cerny in 2022.
Cerny, the architect behind the PlayStation 4 and director of Knack, submitted a patent indicating that Sony is investigating how to increase ray tracing performance on the PS5.
As this couldn’t be implemented via an update to the PS5 console and would require newer hardware, it’s expected that the PS5 Pro would focus on graphical fidelity much like the PS4 Pro.
The now-deleted Moore’s Law Is Dead video also shared details surrounding ‘PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution’, or PSSR. According to the YouTuber, PSSR is Sony’s in-house upscaling tech, similar to Nvidia‘s DLSS, and AMD‘s FSR.
A document shared within the Moore’s Law Is Dead video alleges that PSSR will utilize machine-learning techniques and enhance the resolution of games, with 4K support at first, then later with 8K support coming in a future SDK version.
According to sources who spoke to Tom Warren at The Verge, Sony is encouraging developers to use ray-tracing tech, with games showing any significant enhancements being able to use a “Trinity Enhanced” label.