Sony may be gearing up to release an enhanced PlayStation 5 Pro console at the end of 2024, according to leaked details emerging online. Information posted to gaming forums indicates the PS5 Pro will double down on fast storage, upscaling technologies, and major GPU upgrades to push high-fidelity graphics even further.

Posted by an anonymous but reportedly reliable source, the specifications reveal the PS5 Pro’s custom GPU codenamed “Trinity” will be based on AMD’s next-gen RDNA 3 architecture, with certain features even pulled forward from RDNA 4. This signals a major performance leap over the current PS5’s GPU.

Trinity is slated to pack 3584 stream processors and hardware dedicated specifically to ray tracing, enabling much more immersive lighting and reflection effects. Paired with speedy 18 Gbps GDDR6 memory, Trinity can theoretically hit up to 14 TFLOPS of power or more.

The reports also highlight the PS5 Pro will utilize an advanced upscaling chip dubbed “XDNA2” to leverage temporal machine learning and boost games to higher resolutions while preserving image quality. This technique will be key for the console to achieve stable, smooth 4K gaming beyond 30 FPS.

Additionally, the leak reaffirms the PS5 Pro will double down on the current PS5’s rapid storage technology for lightning fast load times. Hardware compression and decompression will also aid the console’s speed.

While unconfirmed by Sony, the leaked specifications fuel speculation that an enhanced PlayStation 5 Pro is imminent. With these cutting-edge upgrades for high-fidelity gaming and storage, Sony could be gearing up for a major console war strike in 2024.

• Viola is fabbed on TSMC N4P.
• GFX1115
• Viola’s CPU is maintaining the zen2 architecture found in the existing PS5 for compatibility, but the frequency will once again be dynamic with a peak of 4.4GHz. 64 KB of L1 cache per core, 512 KB of L2 cache per core, and 8 MB of L3 shared (4 MB per CCX).
• Viola’s die is 30WGPs when fully enabled, but it will only have 28WGPs (56 CUs) enabled for the silicon in retail PS5 Pro units.
• Trinity is the culmination of three key technologies. Fast storage (hardware accelerated compression and decompression, already an existing key PS5 technology), accelerated ray tracing, and upscaling.
• Architecture is RDNA3, but it’s taking ray tracing improvements from RDNA4. BVH traversal will be handled by dedicated RT hardware rather than fully relying on the shaders. It will also include thread reordering to reduce data and execution divergence, something akin to Ada Lovelace SER and Intel Arc’s TSU.
• 3584 shaders, 224 TMUs, and 96 ROPs.
• 16GB of 18 gbps GDDR6. 256-bit memory bus with 576 GB/s memory bandwidth.
• The GPU frequency target is 2.0 GHz. This lands the dual-issue TFLOPs in the range of 28.67 TFLOPs peak (224 (TMUs) * 2 (operations, dual issue) * 2 (core clock)). 14.33 TFLOPs if we ignore the dual-issue factor.
• 50-60% rasterization uplift over Oberon and Oberon Plus, over twice the raw RT performance.
• XDNA2 NPU will be featured for the purpose of accelerating Sony’s bespoke temporal machine learning upscaling technique. This will be one of the core focuses of the PS5 Pro, like we saw with checkboard rendering for the PS4 Pro. Temporally stable upscaled 4K output at higher than 30 FPS is the goal.
• September 2024 reveal