PS5 Pro vs PS5 In-Depth Specs Comparison – YOUR EVERY QUESTION ANSWERED

[Music] so you've probably heard as if it's been easy to ignore that the PlayStation 5 Pro is a thing it cost $6.99 without a vertical stand or a disc drive and people excluding perhaps Microsoft are rightfully annoyed what's the point of a midgen refresh when it's too expensive arrogant Sony is back maybe I will buy an Xbox series X but not really so on and so forth however there's plenty to discuss regarding the actual differences between the PS5 Pro and the bass PS5 and we're not talking about how it's the same height or how the width is the same as the PS5 slim first off the CPU the PS5 rocks and AMD ryzen Zen 2 with eight cores and 16 threads clocked at 3.5 GHz Sony hasn't officially outlined the pro CPU in specs but CNET confirmed in its recent preview that it's the same corroborating a report from inside gaming in March the main difference is a reported High CPU frequency mode increasing the clock speed from 3.5 GHz to 3.85 GHz for a 10% increase it's worth noting that since the CPU is receiving more power in this scenario GPU performance allegedly under goes a 1.55% downclocking resulting in a 1% performance drop regardless you would think a higher CPU clock speed means better overall performance right the answer is is it depends on the game take from software's Elden ring for example the PS5 version suffers from some frame rate drops due to the sheer CPU dependence of the title to the extent that the best way to get a consistent 60fps is to run the PS4 version on PS5 and stomach the drop in Fidelity in this scenario the PS5 Pro would provide a decent increase how decent remains to be seen But one has to wonder about future titles with extensive CPU operations and how they might Faire on the console case in point is Grand Theft Auto 6 and whether it will achieve 4K and 60 FPS let alone offer a performance mode capable of the ladder once again it all boils down to the design if its population density and variety physics and AI are all vastly Superior to Grand Theft Auto 5 and it's looking very likely then the pro CPU may not be that impactful it's hard to say at this point the console's other specs also play a part though and it's here that some of the more significant improvements are visible Sony touted the GPU as having 45% faster rendering and 67% more compute units so going by the ps5s number 36 the result should be 6cu in PC GPU terms the PS5 would be equivalent to an AMD Radeon RX 6700 while the pro is closer to a Radeon RX 6800 though it features an AMD Radeon rdna 2 chipset Insider gaming reports that it offers 33.5 T flops of performance the most obvious benefit is having graphical modes with higher resolutions or more Fidelity for example cnet's preview noted that Gran Turismo 7 offered 8K and 4K with improved rate racing how many people own an 8K TV is another matter entirely however some titles will also benefit from significant visual improvements as lead architect Mark cery noted in the technical presentation Horizon forbidden West benefits from improved lighting and visual effects during gameplay and better hair and skin in cinematics regarding the memory it's 28% compared to the PS5 returning to Insider Gaming's report the difference is a memory bandwidth of 576 GB per second for the pro over the PS5 is 448 GB per second though the most noteworthy benefit is faster loading times and the rendering of complex environments as noted by forbidden West receiving an overall boost in detail it's another Boom for titles targeting for 4K and higher resolutions the other benefit of the larger GPU and part of the PS5 Pros big three is the advanced R tracing it offers double and sometimes triple the cast speeds of the Basse PS5 along with more Dynamic reflection and refraction of light with negligible impact on the performance even at higher resolutions Grand Turismo 7 shines again offering real-time Reflections between cars during gameplay while maintaining 60fps Hogwarts Legacy benefits from more realistic Shadows higher quality Reflections and more varied reflective surfaces cery told CET that the console uses amd's Advanced rate tracing features that aren't included in the manufacturer's current gpus which makes the PS5 Pro more impressive in the short to medium term finally there is PlayStation spectral super resolution an AI driven upscaling technology for improving image quality the result means more detail and sharper scaled images as seen with Ratchet and Clank Rift apart on PS5 Pro distant details are clearer than in performance RT mode on the bass PS5 on the other hand players can maintain the texture quality and environmental details of fidelity mode in The Last of Us two remastered while still benefiting from the responsiveness of 60 FPS it should also reduce the artifacting seen in other upscaling methods while facilitating further graphical modes for developers patching their titles to support the console depending on how essential R Racing is for you pssr will let you experience it at 60 FPS though use cases vary based on the game as usual as for the solid state drive it gets a pretty big boost with 2 terab of space some of that will be reserved but it's still an improvement over the base PS5 and its 825 GB SSD of which only 667 GB is available even if the read speed is still 5.5 GB per second per scen at previous you more space allows for installing more games obviously but it may also be an effort to mitigate the lack of a dis drive while encouraging digital ownership another potential benefit is more room for higher resolution footage so if you've been salivating at the thought of uploading 8K footage of Gran Turismo this is good news it also Segways nicely into the Wi-Fi section instead of the ps5s Wi-Fi 6 the PS5 Pro Sports Wi-Fi 7 on top of supporting 2.5 5 and 6 Herz data bands it also features 320 MZ bandwidth support with a potential max speed of 46 GB per second downloads and streaming will thus be quicker perhaps even benefiting those streaming titles from the cloud this does depend on your internet plan but it's one of the more underrated future facing features of the pro despite touting it as a means to bridge the gap between Fidelity and performance modes Sony is marketing the PS5 Pro as more of a premium option than a simple midgen refresh there is plenty of debate about its necessity especially compared to the PS4 Pro which offered a significant jump over the base PS4 Feud as outdated from the get-go comparatively there are still plenty of cross gen titles instead of exclusives for the PS5 with few truly pushing the console's limits even with the PS4 Pro retailing for $3.99 the same price as the Basse console when it launched it would sell 14.5 million units in its lifetime about 12 12% of total PS4 sales Ander analysis research director Pierce Harding rolls estimated a similar response for the PS5 Pro with about 1.3 million PS5 Pro Sales forecast for the year Sony's external disc drive is currently eighth on Amazon's us bestseller list while being sold out on Best Buy assuming that translates into enthusiasm for the console perhaps there's a decent enough demand or scalpers having a field day once again we won't know until pre-orders for the console go live while it's a better machine than the PS5 the PS5 Pro CPU enhancements are incremental at best time will tell how developers leverage the hardware for current titles it'll be even more interesting to see how future first-party games take advantage of the GPU and rate tracing nevertheless the PS5 Pro is a far cry from a ps6 level jump in terms of Technology forget the pricing or the additional costs hey did you know that we at gaming bolt upload new videos every day stick around drop a like subscribe and hit that Bell and let us know what kind of content you'd like to see in the future with a comment below