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The long-rumored PlayStation 5 Pro is real. It’s everything the leaks said it would be, though, in the looks department, it appears very much like the PlayStation 5 slim edition with a few lines running through it. The Pro version of the PS5 is a more powerful console than the one from 2020, with an updated chip with higher clock speeds that could make your existing PS5 games look even better.
In a mere nine minutes of technical presentation (the same time it takes to boil an egg), Sony’s PlayStation 5 architect Mark Cerny got in front of the camera to reveal the first details of the mid-cycle console refresh. This time around, the big improvement from 2023’s slim PS5 model is 45% better rendering. It’s also going to have better capability to handle ray tracing.
Cerny said games should have sharper graphics and still support more games up to 60 FPS without choosing between 30 FPS fidelity and less intensive performance modes.
The console will 2 TB of storage, the same as the Xbox Series X Galaxy Edition, though the PS5 Pro is a far more interesting lateral move than Microsoft’s console refresh. The new console. PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, Sony’s own AI upscaling tech that can produce higher framerates by upscaling from a lower resolution.
The console will be available Nov. 7 for $700, $200 more than the base PS5 in the U.S.
The news on the PlayStation 5 Pro is ongoing, and we will update the story as more information becomes available.
