Sony is expected to announce the long-anticipated PlayStation 5 Pro at its presentation on Tuesday.
The company announced today that it plans to deliver a nine-minute PS5 “technical presentation” led by senior system architect Mark Cerny.
The stream begins on September 10th at 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm BST and will be broadcast in English on the PlayStation YouTube channel.
According to Sony, the presentation will “focus on PS5 and innovations in gaming technology.”
According to recent leaks, the PS5 Pro will likely have a similar design to the PS5 Slim, and the console color will likely remain white. According to this information, Sony is expected to announce the console in the first half of September.
The biggest difference is the addition of three black stripes down the center of the console, which is said to set it apart from other PS5 models.
Sony may have confirmed the leak by including images of the PS5 Pro design during its PlayStation 30th anniversary presentation last week.
In April, YouTuber Moore’s Law is Dead leaked an official Sony document detailing the console’s specifications, obtained from Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Developer Network.
This article was verified by other sites, including IGN, but was removed due to a copyright infringement lawsuit from Sony, further increasing the credibility of this article.
The footage reveals that while the PS5 Pro has the same CPU as the standard PS5, the new console features a “high CPU frequency mode” that increases CPU performance by 10%, bringing it to 3.85GHz, but reducing GPU performance by around 1%.
The GPU itself is rated at 33.5 teraflops compared to the PS5’s 10.28 teraflops, but that doesn’t mean it’s three times as powerful.
As The Verge noted at the time, the changes in AMD’s architecture make it difficult to directly compare the teraflops of the PS5 and PS5 Pro, and in reality, the comparison is closer to 10.28 versus 17 teraflops (in fact, leaked documents from Moore’s Law is Dead suggest “rendering is about 45% faster”).
