Microsoft's anticipating a PS5 Slim and a Pro model from Sony, but what could we actually get? The digitalfoundry team talk options in a new DF Direct Weekly:
Supporter Q4: People often claim that game updates improve performance, when they often don't. How can gamers get over the placebo effect here?
I can see John's point of view because the history of console add-ons is not exactly packed with success stories. Assuming the optional drive is indeed going to happen, the question comes down to how Sony is going to present it.
Going back to Microsoft's FTC docs, there's once again talk of a PS5 Pro model, in contrast to Microsoft's stated position of being happy where it is right now with Series X and Series S hardware. I've been trying to think of how Sony can make this machine a reality but it occurs to me that a Pro model can take many different forms.
Going down that route would be expensive, but a new process node does offer other alternatives for the existing silicon - faster clocks, for example. On top of that, every PS5 processor has four compute units disabled. Binned processors with all CUs active in conjunction with higher clocks could see CPU performance improve and GPU compute move from around 10 teraflops up to circa 14TF.
In the Direct, my colleagues point out that the AMD roadmap doesn't seem to highlight any particular technologies that could enable a Pro console, but as I point out, I'm reminded of the 2019 RDNA 1 event I attended, where AMD downplayed the importance of hardware accelerated RT at virtually the same time that Microsoft confirmed RDNA 2 hardware RT in what was then called Project Scarlett.
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