Leak: PS5 Pro Arrives This Holiday Season

Leaked Sony documentation suggests that the company is planning a holiday 2024 launch for the PlayStation 5 Pro.

“Trinity is the code name for the PlayStation 5 Pro, that has been leaked many times in the past,” the unnamed host of a recent episode of the Moore’s Law is Dead channel on YouTube explains as he displays the leaked documentation. “It says that the raw rendering performance is 45 percent faster than the base PS5, although ray tracing is described as being two to four times faster.”

The host goes on to explain that if these numbers are true, it can’t only be due to the next-generation AMD RDNA GPU we expect to see in the PS5 Pro. The documentation also highlights a “custom machine learning architecture” that delivers 300 TOPS (trillions of operations per second) of “8-bit computation,” a PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution upscaling feature with 4K and 8K support, and 67 TFLOPS (trillions of floating-point operations per second) of GPU performance.

That latter number is important because we can directly compare that number to today’s consoles. The Xbox Series X, for example, is capable of 12 TFLOPS, while current PlayStation 5 models land at about 10 TFLOPS. The PS5 number is for 16-bit floating-point operations, compared to 32-bit on those Xbox Series X and PS5 numbers, so it’s not a 1:1 comparison. But Moore’s Law is Dead says the PS5 Pro is almost three times faster than the Xbox Series X in GPU performance.

Other sources have confirmed the documentation leak and that they represent Sony’s current plans for the PS5 Pro. The first PS5 Pro devkits went out internal publishers in September 2023 and to top third-party publishers in January, apparently. And the next round of devkits is expected to be identical to the finished product.