Sony reveals detailed information on PS5 console, full exposure of hardware specifications

In the early hours of this morning, Sony announced the details of the next-generation game console PlayStation 5 in the United States. Not surprisingly, it will be listed together with Microsoft Xbox Series X during this year’s Christmas holiday.

, like Xbox Series X (hereinafter referred to as Xbox), PS5 uses AMD's customized processor based on the ZEN2 architecture, with 8 cores and 16 threads, running at 3.5GHz (Xbox is 3.6GHz, and can reach 3.8GHz when SMT is turned off). For the GPU part of

, both parties will support ray tracing, but the hardware specifications of Xbox (52CU @1.825GHz, 12TFLOPS) are higher than PS5 (36CU @2.23GHz, 10.3TFLOPS). Both parties claim to support 4K resolution games, of course. The effect remains to be announced after the product is launched. PS5 will support AMD SmartShift technology, allowing a balanced distribution of power between the CPU and GPU.

memory, both use 16GB GDDR6, but there may be some differences in the allocation and use. Xbox divides it into a high-speed part (560GB/s) with a 10GB capacity and a slower part (336GB) with a 6GB capacity. PS5 does not introduce specific usage information, but will make full use of memory capacity as much as possible.

Microsoft equipped the Xbox Series X with a custom NVMe solid-state drive with a capacity of 1TB, and provided an expansion card slot on the back (only Seagate custom models were initially listed), supporting DirectStorage high-speed storage technology (this technology will also be introduced in the future) Windows operating system). The PS5 is equipped with an 825GB NVMe solid-state drive. The customized master has 12 flash channels and PCIe 4.0 support. The sequential access speed is up to 5.5GB/s (Xbox 2.4GB/s). Complete the loading of 2GB game data within 0.27 seconds, eliminate the waiting process of game loading like riding an elevator, or evolve it into a senseless switch that fades in and out.

It is worth mentioning that Sony will support M.2 solid-state hard drive expansion, which may be more economical in storage upgrades.

Although the PS5 does not have DirectStorage, the custom I/O unit also implements DMA direct memory access, which helps to reduce the dependence on the CPU in the process of reading data from the high-speed NVMe solid state drive to the memory.

In addition, Sony also introduced the 3D sound effect technology named Tempest 3D AudioTech, which can use only two speakers to achieve 3D audio effects. After testing hundreds of people, Sony has created a default profile that is suitable for most people's experience. In addition, there are 5 additional audio profiles to choose from, allowing users to find the choice that best suits their physiological characteristics.