The question is what you consider a “CPU”, after all, the PS5 chip is a SoC that houses the CPU and GPU in operation. If you look at the CPU part of the SoC, not much will change according to rumors, it is still Zen 2, 8 cores, but the frequency may be a little higher. All in all not very exciting.

However, if you look at the “CPU” as a whole, as one usually does, for example, with a monolithic laptop chip or other console chips, and also seems to have been done here in various articles, the difference is quite significant. CPU performance is often not very important for the console, as long as there is enough capacity and it does not exceed the threshold, causing frame drops.

The GPU part is more important and it seems like major steps have been made there, RDNA 3 instead of RDNA 2, better ray tracing units and also much greater ML performance.

So the comparison with PS4 and PS4 Pro is not entirely strange, because it will be something like this. The CPU is a little faster, but with the same architecture, with PS4 vs PS4 Pro, however, the GPU architecture has not been updated either, which is GCN 2.0 in both chips. So there was a pure upgrade for more CUs. Here he is, if the rumors are true, with renewed structure and a bump in the CUs.

However, I would not call the SoC the same, everything indicates that this new silicon, just overclocking the old firmware should not lead to this result.

[Reactie gewijzigd door Dennism op 18 maart 2024 19:30]