Sony is said to have launched an internal investigation into the leaked documents about the rumored PS5 Pro model.
Last week, additional specs and details about Sony's rumored mid-gen hardware refresh surfaced - the PlayStation 5 Pro. As claimed by YouTuber 'Moore's Law is Dead', the leaked PS5 Pro document has revealed that the new PS5 model will sport a larger GPU with faster system memory. In addition, the console will offer substantially faster rendering than the current PS5. Also, the console is said to offer a significantly better ray tracing architecture.
Following this leak, known leaker Tom Henderson chimed in on the matter, stating that the leaked PS5 Pro specs are the real deal. He added that Sony is still targeting a holiday 2024 release for the powered-up PS5 console. Later on, outlet IGN also reported that the leaked specs were legit. Apparently, the leaked PS5 Pro document came from a third party, and according to Henderson, Sony has now launched an internal investigation into the matter.
"As expected, Sony has launched an internal investigation into the leaked documents on Trinity as it leaked during a third-party rollout", Henderson wrote on X. "Not sure on the implications yet as I don't think they can catch one individual, but Sony could reduce its third-party developer pool for new tech as a result."
It should be noted that this 'info' comes from Henderson, and Sony hasn't openly commented on the leaked specs of the rumored PS5 pro model. As a matter of fact, Sony hasn't even confirmed the existence of the model. On the other hand, if Sony is indeed investigating the matter, these specs are likely the real deal. It will be interesting to see how this matter will evolve. For the sake of completeness, we've included the additional details and specs, as leaked some days ago, down below:
- Larger GPU with faster memory, providing 45% improved performance in rasterized rendering;
- Massively improved ray tracing architecture that should deliver 2-3x speedup over the regular PS5, with peaks of 4x;
- Custom machine learning architecture that supports 300 TOPS (Trillions of Operations Per Second) at 8-bit;
- The ML architecture was built to enable the so-called PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) upscaling technique. The leaked document describes it as Sony's version of Multi Frame Super Resolution based on the PlayStation Machine Learning (PSML) algorithm. According to the leaked info, PSSR currently supports up to 4K, but there are plans to add 8K support;
- PSSR is an ML-enhanced version of Temporal Anti-aliasing Upscaling (TAAU) that requires similar inputs to NVIDIA DLSS or AMD FSR and fully supports High Dynamic Range (HDR) pipelines. Moreover, no per-game training is required, just like with the latest version of DLSS. The document goes on to say PSSR requires just 250MB of the PS5 Pro's memory, with a current rendering cost of 2 milliseconds to upscale from Full HD to 4K, although optimization is still ongoing;
- The document also includes an image comparison with TAAU and AMD FSR 2, reportedly showing that PSSR offers superior image quality.
