PlayStation 5 Tech Specs Revealed

Tech investigators Digital Foundry have gotten a complicated checkout Sony’s PlayStation 5 presentation by Mark Cerny that’s happening now, and have posted the specs for the vacation console.

Here they’re straight from Digital Foundry:

CPU
8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.5GHz (variable frequency)

GPU
10.28 TFLOPs, 36 CUs at 2.23GHZ (variable frequency)

GPU Architecture
Custom RDNA 2

Memory/Interface
16GB GDDR6/256-bit

Memory Bandwidth
448GB/s

Internal Storage
Custom 825GB SSD

IO Throughput
5.5 GB/s (Raw), Typical 8-9GB/s (Compressed)

Expandable Storage
NVMe SSD Slot

External Storage
USB HDD Support

Optical Drive
4K UHD Blu-ray Drive

On the face of it, the PlayStation 5 is contrasted with Microsoft’s Xbox Series X (which also recently revealed its specs) in some areas, like the GPU of the Series X boasting 12 TFLOPS of performance. Cerny’s presentation and Digital Foundry’s analysis goes more in-depth on the PS5, its architecture, and the way its used, beyond the numbers.

We’ll surely learn more about the PlayStation 5’s specs and the way it all comes together from the presentation and within the future before launch.

[Source: Digital Foundry]

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