The main thing from the boring presentation of the PlayStation 5: the exact characteristics and features of the console

Sony held a presentation of the PlayStation 5 for developers, at which it named the main features of the new system

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What is known

Like the Xbox Series X, Sony's console willuse hardware from AMD. At the presentation, Sony emphasized the introduction of an SSD into the PlayStation 5, which frees up the hands of developers. Now video game creators won’t have to come up with tricks to hide the background loading of locations from the player, and the levels themselves will load faster than on the PlayStation 4.

As for the games themselves, Sony promisesnot only improved graphics, but also hardware support for ray tracing. Cerni assured that he had already seen the result and was surprised, but did not show any examples at the presentation itself.

Sony also promised hardware support for reversecompatibility with games for PlayStation 4. Engineers have provided a certain Legacy Mode for emulating PlayStation 4 and 4 Pro, but each project will have to be optimized manually. Still, Sony promises that already at the launch of the PlayStation 5 more than a hundred games from the eighth generation will be available.

They will also deliver Tempest Engine, which will workfor the benefit of the soundtrack. PlayStation 5 will allow the player to immerse themselves deeper into virtual worlds, regardless of the peripherals they are using.

Features PlayStation 5:

  • Processor: 8-core Zen 2 Cores 3.5 GHz
  • GPU: Custom RDNA 2 10.28 teraflops, 36 CUs 2.23 GHz
  • RAM: 16 GB GDDR6 (256-bit)
  • Bandwidth: 448 GB
  • Memory: 825 GB SSD
  • Memory Expansion: NVMe SSD Slot and USB HDD Support
  • Drive: 4K UHD Blu-ray Drive

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