Sony has yet to officially announce or reveal the PS5 Pro, but it’s one of the industry’s biggest open secrets and it appears the silence may about to be broken. Ahead of a debut, a new leak suggests that we may now know what the PS5 Pro looks like, along with some additional information.
This information comes from dealabs.com in an interesting format. The site claims they have seen the packaging of the PS5 Pro box, which they are not sharing itself, but instead they have done the equivalent of a police sketch of the box based on what they’ve seen, which you can see above.
As you can see, it is not exactly a radical departure, and echoes the PS5 Slim pretty clearly, albeit with more ridges up its sides. It’s supposed to be a bit thicker and this version at least does not have a disc drive. The site does not know if there will be an option with a drive or not, removable or no. The same DualSense controller will be included with the system, and that is not changing, as expected.
The PS5 Pro will arrive about when these kinds of upgrades have happened in the past, albeit a touch later. The PS5 has been dominating Xbox Series S/X in sales, but Sony believes that players will want an upgrade at this point all the same, especially ahead of the console-only release of GTA 6. If it’s as powerful as it’s supposed to be, the PS5 Pro will be the “best” place to play the no doubt technically intensive GTA 6. As of now, there are fewer known plans about Xbox creating an upgraded version of the Series X, and regardless, it appears the PS5 Pro will arrive first.
We’ve heard leaked specs about the PS5 Pro for a while now, which include:
- The SoC maintains the Zen2 CPU architecture found in the current PS5 for compatibility, The dynamic frequency will have a peak of 4.4GHz.
- The chip has 64 KB of L1 cache per core, 512 KB of L2 cache per core, and 8 MB of L3 shared (4 MB per CCX).
- 3584 shaders, 224 TMUs, and 96 ROPs.
- 16GB of 18 gbps GDDR6. 256-bit memory bus with 576 GB/s memory bandwidth.
- The GPU frequency target is 2.0 GHz. This lands the dual-issue TFLOPs in the range of 28.67 TFLOPs peak
- Temporally stable upscaled 4K output at higher than 30 FPS is the PS5 Pro’s goal.
Like that report, this new report also says that the reveal of the system should arrive in September 2024, which of course is a few days from now. Perhaps even in the first half of the month.
One open question is the price, and no one seems to have a firm answer on that. The top-end PS5 Slim with a disc drive right now is $500, $450 for the digital-only one. Some speculate a PS5 Pro could go as high as $600, a tall order especially in the current economy, and despite the specs, it’s unclear if it would be a difference meaningful enough to result in an entirely new purchase for current PS5 owners. We may find out shortly.
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