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[Shin]

Sony has broken its silence. PlayStation 5 specifications are now out in the open with system architect Mark Cerny delivering a deep dive presentation into the nature of the new hardware and the ways in which we should expect a true generational leap over PlayStation 4. Digital Foundry had the chance to watch the lecture a couple of days ahead of time and had the opportunity to talk to Cerny in more depth afterwards about the nature of the custom PlayStation hardware and the philosophy behind its design.

As you'll appreciate when you see the deep-dive presentation released today, there's a wealth of new information about Sony's next-generation console plans here, and that's before we go really in-depth with the information Mark Cerny shared with us beyond the content of today's presentation. With that in mind, we'll be presenting our content in two chunks. Today, we'll be looking at what we've learned from Sony's video broadcast, and a little further on down the road, we'll go deeper and share even more detail around the central pillars. In summary, however, these are the core details covered today:

• The technical specifications of PlayStation 5 and its innovative 'boost' approach to core clocks;
• The features of the PlayStation 5 GPU;
• How the SSD helps deliver the next-generation dream;
• How Sony tackles expandable storage;
• Unprecedented 3D audio fidelity via the Tempest 3D Audio Engine.

 

[Judd Nelson]

10.28TF max. But variable frequency. So more like 9.2TF.
What a potato from Sony.
$399 or the PS5 and SIE are dead.
Welcome to 3rd place, Sony.

 

[speedomodel]

825SSD? Did they remove for OS?

 

[Armorian]

- slower ram than XSX (at least 10GB of it)
- XSX with ~20% more powerful GPU, not that bad BUT*
- slower CPU than XSX *
- twice as fast SSD with ability to use pc drives, not bad but will it make any difference?

* - FUCKING POWER SAVER feature dropping (high as fuck) GPU clocks, loooool

10.28TF max. But variable frequency. So more like 9.2TF.
What a potato from Sony.
$399 or the PS5 and SIE are dead.
Welcome to 3rd place, Sony.

They will still win, but it will be way closer (now PS4 sold over twice as much as X1)

 

[Michele]

SSD 5.5 GB/s, external hard disk is around 100 MB/s

 

[Grand Theft Scratchy]

As usual, it's the games that will impress, not console specs. Compared to the PS4 it looks like a good upgrade.

 

[Michele]

Okay I'm going to stop doubleposting, and just make it into one.

New features, high efficiency, backwards compatibility, and familiarity for developers, or at least it's said in the screen to the left.

New graphic cards aren't like PS4 cards/FLOP/CU.

edit 2: There are some new features for GPU, like a vast improvement in the graphics. Not sure, haven't following much even with subtitles. But there's also ray tracing now.