Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that it will reveal new details about the PlayStation 5 tomorrow (Wednesday, March 18th) at Noon US-EDT via the company’s PlayStation Blog.
PS5 lead system architect Mark Cerny will reportedly “provide a deep dive into PS5’s system architecture, and how it will shape the future of games”.
The planned reveal comes after Microsoft revealed late yesterday the full comprehensive technical specs on the next-gen Xbox Series X with several in-depth videos going online from Digital Foundry, Austin Evans & which open up the machine, look at the components and explore how those components result in an incredibly powerful machine up there with the best PCs on the market at present.
One of the big features is the ability to suspend and swap between five different games at once with only a 5-6 second delay between them. There’s also a new low latency controller. Here are the specs, more details can be found at Xbox.com:
CPU: AMD 7nm Zen 2 CPU Cores with 2 x Quad-Core clusters (8 cores, 16 threads).
CLOCK SPEED: 3.8Ghz Locked on all cores (multi-threading off) or 3.6Ghz (multi-threading on). Those frequencies are locked with no boost clock.
GPU: Custom RNDA 2-Based processor with 3328 Shaders over 52 Compute Units at a locked 1825Mhz. 12.155 TFLOPS. Also Hardware Acclelerated Ray Tracing Support.
MEMORY: 16Gb GDDR6 RAM (6x2Gb + 4x1Gb with custom 320-bit Interface). 10Gb of that runs at 560GB/s, 6Gb runs at 336GB/s (3.5Gbs for games, 2.5Gbs for OS).
HARD DISK: Custom 1Tb NVME SSD 2.4 GB/s. Expandable storage via proprietary SSDs.
4K UHD Blu-ray Drive
HDMI 2.1 with 120Hz/VRR/ALLM capability.
Both consoles were originally targeting a Fall 2020 release but are now expected to arrive early 2021.
