The PS5 Pro appears to be a massive improvement vs the PS5 with a GPU that could bring an over 3x TFLOP increase in addition to a whopping 2 to 4 times better ray racing performance according to the latest leak from Moore’s Law Is Dead. The leak also reveals key details regarding the PS5 Pro’s custom image upscaling tech.

Sony is rumored to release the PS5 Pro later this year, potentially in September, with a big performance improvement over the base PS5. So far, leaks have alleged that the PS5 Pro features an 8-core Zen 2 CPU, up to a 30 WGP (60 CU) GPU, 16 GB of memory running at 18 Gbps, and a 256-bit wide memory bus.

Moore’s Law Is Dead (MLID) has now published a new PS5 Pro leak video that reveals incredible details about the GPU, machine learning, and Sony’s custom upscaling tech.

PS5 Pro GPU with up to 4x faster ray tracing

MLID presents a document in the video which lists “Higher GPU performance” as one of the three main selling points of the PS5 Pro (codenamed “Trinity”). The PS5 Pro’s GPU is allegedly “larger” and brings a 45% boost in performance over the standard PS5. While this proposed performance increase is sizeable, it is quite a bit less than a previous report which put the number at 50-60%.

Furthermore, MLID reports that the PS5 Pro GPU is anywhere from 2 to 4 times better at ray tracing than the base PS5 (Available on Amazon). This is in line with a leak from December 2023 which alleged more than 2x the improvement. Interestingly, if the PS5 Pro has ray tracing that is more than two times as fast as the regular PS5, the PS5 Pro might not have a simple RDNA 3 or 3.5 GPU as has been leaked.

Consider this, the RX 7900 XTX, the fastest RDNA 3 GPU on the market, is only 36% faster than the RDNA 2-based RX 6900 XT per TechPowerUP’s testing of RT at 4K. Since the PS5 features an RDNA 2 GPU, the purported PS5 Pro with an RDNA 3 board would bring nowhere near the performance of the leaked numbers unless it is packing some RT improvements not seen on regular RDNA 3 cards. This could exactly be the case as a past rumor suggested that the PS5 Pro’s GPU packs some RT tech from RDNA 4.

Moving on, MLID also reports that the console’s GPU boasts 300 TOPs of 8-bit Integer machine learning and 67 TFLOPs of 16-bit or 33.5 TFLOPs of 32-bit Floating Point performance. As a reference, the base PS5 and Xbox Series X (Buy it on Amazon) are rated for 10.28 and 12 TFLOPs respectively.

PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR)

The PS5 Pro is rumored to employ a custom DLSS-like tech for upscaling. MLID suggests that the tech is called “PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution” and is a “Temporal Anti-aliasing Upscale” that is accelerated with machine learning. The upscaler supports a maximum resolution of 4K with support for higher resolutions reportedly on the cards for future versions.

Per the document obtained by MLID, PSSR is very similar to DLSS and FSR in its input requirements, supports full HDR, and works with dynamic resolution. Moreover, the upscaler apparently doesn’t require training on a per-game basis matching DLSS.

When it comes to resource requirements, PSSR supposedly needs 250 MB of memory and 2 ms to upscale a 1080p input to 4K. However, this running time can change in the future as optimizations are underway.

Long story short, GPU performance and upscaling could be the killer weapons of the PS5 Pro. This could allow Sony to market the console as a 4K beast that can not only do incredible ray tracing but also do it at high frame rates.

While all of it sounds amazing and we are definitely excited to know more, it is important to take the information with a grain of salt.

PS5 pro is not happening

PS5 pro is just a rumor, there has been no confirmation of one in any way and I highly doubt it's happening. There will only be a slim version that I think will be inferior. I think the pro is being skipped and the PS6 will launch in 2028.

Slim yes, pro no

Also the slim is gonna be trash compared to the regular. Go get your ps5 tomorrow ****ot.

Graphics dont mean chit without new games that are good

Theres lots of good games coming out

Graphics dont mean chit without new games that are good

Ray tracing lol who actually gives a chit about it. Just bump up the fuggin framerates and stop having games drop to 720p with upscaling.

All this article says to me is that games will still require upscaling magic to play games comfortably at 4k

Ray tracing lol who actually gives a chit about it. Just bump up the fuggin framerates and stop having games drop to 720p with upscaling.

All this article says to me is that games will still require upscaling magic to play games comfortably at 4k

95% of the games on ps5 are just ps4 games at a higher resolution. they havent even made any games to target the current gen as a baseline

Who gives a fk. 4 good games to play in the entire generation.
PS5 is a dead console and a Pro model isn’t bringing it back to life.

Returnal
Demons souls
Ratchet and clank
Spider-Man 2
Astro
Helldivers 2

All targeting the current gen as a baseline

Sad that a launch game; Ratched and clank is still the best looking game of this gen

Like what? I own PS5 so I'm interested

Not gonna lie ray tracing is king for me , rather have that than 16327fps, but thats just me.

Not gonna lie the PS5 is the biggest bust if a Pro is really coming, buying one as launch was a rip off

Why do we need a pro console again?



We have barely any current PS5 exclusives that have made full use of the PS5's capabilities.

Any games that do release are releasing in a pitiful state — And I suspect more of this is to do with actual dev budget/manpower/skill and lack of optimization.

Also can we stop putting rtx on a pedestal … half the time the implementation on consoles are just ass and tank performance. There are so few games that actually utilize rtx properly while giving proper performance at all modes.


I mean I'll still buy this day one for increased performance … but let these current gen consoles breathe ffs.


If devs and sony at least came out and said that current gen consoles aren't really powerful enough then I could stomach the need for a pro, but that'd be horrible business sense lol.

Same, lighting makes a massive difference to me, even HDR was a huge jump IMO.




You asked a question then answered it in the same post.

The bad news is 45% raster increase isn’t fantastic.

The good news is the ray tracing performance increase is fantastic. So games like spiderman 2 and ratchet should see big benefits.

Yeah, but my point still stands. This extra power is just for the sole reason of dev's bruteforcing their performance with the extra overhead because they're lazy/have no time/manpower/budget. There's no proper optimization being done. It's one of the reasons why pc gets some chitty ass ports and then just rely on stronger hardware to try and make up at least some barely sort of acceptable performance.

There's a reason why a game like Metro runs GI RTX flawlessly on PC and then you have Gotham Knights which ran like chit even on high end hardware.

Look at Cyberpunk/BG3 …. 2 games that benefited from being optimized to hell and back.


Dev's have barely used PS5 to its full potential and already they're trying to add in a different sku.

If the only win is more RT and/or higher quality RT with less sacrifice to resolution and/or fps I am extremely happy. I mean the whole I always have to sacrifice something have been a major complain for many gamers this gen.



I am not a dev but I assume "bruteforcing their performance" as you put it is less costly than optimizing. And like you just said, you are gonna buy it, and you are a person who doesn't see the point. So if they can make something that even people who don't see the point in are going to buy, I think they will.

The bad news is 45% raster increase isn’t fantastic.

The good news is the ray tracing performance increase is fantastic. So games like spiderman 2 and ratchet should see big benefits.

Returnal
Demons souls
Ratchet and clank
Spider-Man 2
Astro
Helldivers 2

All targeting the current gen as a baseline

Why do we need a pro console again?



We have barely any current PS5 exclusives that have made full use of the PS5's capabilities.

Yeah, but my point still stands. This extra power is just for the sole reason of dev's bruteforcing their performance with the extra overhead because they're lazy/have no time/manpower/budget. There's no proper optimization being done. It's one of the reasons why pc gets some chitty ass ports and then just rely on stronger hardware to try and make up at least some barely sort of acceptable performance.

There's a reason why a game like Metro runs GI RTX flawlessly on PC and then you have Gotham Knights which ran like chit even on high end hardware.

Look at Cyberpunk/BG3 …. 2 games that benefited from being optimized to hell and back.


Dev's have barely used PS5 to its full potential and already they're trying to add in a different sku.