Tuesday, April 16th 2019
Sony PlayStation 5 Console Confirmed Powered by 8-core Zen 2 CPU, Navi and Ray Tracing Confirmed
Sony's own lead system architect Mark Cerny spilled the beans on the company's upcoming "PlayStation 5" games console - the name isn't confirmed, but it's a PlayStation, and it's the fifth, so, following from the previous nomenclature just makes sense, doesn't it? One particular detail, however, is of most interest to us PC hardware junkies, and that one little fact is the confirmed Navi GPU that will power it. This is, almost certainly, a semi-custom Navi-based GPU, however; but the tidbit that PlayStation 5 will have raytracing support is the one game changer for hardware expectations - on paper, at least.
Of course, Navi is expected to debut much sooner in the consumer space than on next-gen consoles, but the fact that PlayStation 5 development kits are already being seeded - and an increasing rate, according to Sony - bodes well for the feature's inclusion on AMD's consumer-based cards. Either that or the company is taking a software approach to raytracing, which, if NVIDIA's 1000 and 10*0 series is any indication, wouldn't go very well with performance intentions. This does mean that raytracing is about to receive a much-needed market penetration boost for its adoption by developers. NVIDIA will of course be able to wave the flag of having been the first company to introduce the technology to consumers.
Another thing of interest for us is the fact that Cerny said that 3D audio will finally have its own dedicated hardware, which Sony wants to leverage in bringing a qualitative leap in audio quality compared to the PS3 and PS4 (on which audio stayed basically the same).
Other interesting tidbits that have been confirmed is the usage of an AMD 8-core, Zen 2 CPU, alongside 8K resolution support (note that "support" doesn't equal "output") and a faster-than-SSD storage subsystem that is much faster, according to Cerny, than current consumer-grade SSD solutions. Backwards compatibility is, of course, a must by now - Microsoft has made it so with their push that spans the entirety of Xbox's lifetime. Excited already?
Source:
Wired
Of course, Navi is expected to debut much sooner in the consumer space than on next-gen consoles, but the fact that PlayStation 5 development kits are already being seeded - and an increasing rate, according to Sony - bodes well for the feature's inclusion on AMD's consumer-based cards. Either that or the company is taking a software approach to raytracing, which, if NVIDIA's 1000 and 10*0 series is any indication, wouldn't go very well with performance intentions. This does mean that raytracing is about to receive a much-needed market penetration boost for its adoption by developers. NVIDIA will of course be able to wave the flag of having been the first company to introduce the technology to consumers.
Other interesting tidbits that have been confirmed is the usage of an AMD 8-core, Zen 2 CPU, alongside 8K resolution support (note that "support" doesn't equal "output") and a faster-than-SSD storage subsystem that is much faster, according to Cerny, than current consumer-grade SSD solutions. Backwards compatibility is, of course, a must by now - Microsoft has made it so with their push that spans the entirety of Xbox's lifetime. Excited already?
66 Comments on Sony PlayStation 5 Console Confirmed Powered by 8-core Zen 2 CPU, Navi and Ray Tracing Confirmed
I would not be surprised if more don't do this even more so in democratic states.
Last one i bothered with was a PS3 and only found 5 games i actually liked. Cannot see this being any better personally and as often they are releasing them now ddon't make me want to buy in to it again.
We had A3D (Aureal), and was bought and buried by Creative Labs.
We had this in the late 90s and it eviscerated the garbage sound we have now.
I think they might actually be running that on the CPU cores. Ryzen gives them more CPU performance than they know what to do with.
The components above would be about $500 in cost to Sony.
Oh really I wonder why MS, Nintendo or Apple didn't think of that or do you believe Intel, Nvidia, Samsung will sell these at a loss?
Your building unhealthy and unreasonable hype.
That is unless the ps5 is coming in at £1000+ ,nah.
Navi is mainstream , Not high end, Amd don't make mythical shit, they make chips using the same tools and processes as everyone else , not possible.
Perhaps not precisely but the chip they have been designing these last few years was made with the process it's built on in mind, so it has to comply with its limitations.
Therefore Optimistically were expecting around 1080ti and a bit above performance given a reasonable die size that's actually possible to make on 7nm.
They can't fit enough hardware for 4k 60fps and extensive Raytracing in a die size they could put in a console.
Just look at what 4k 60 hz RtRt takes today it's not rocket science and I am an electronic engineer, I'm guessing yes but im not pulling pipe dreams out my ass im basing assumptions in the present reality and 7nm is still expensive to make.
AMD Has Its Own Ray-Tracing Technology
They openly stated zen 2 chips and, Amd would be best served to use the exact same chiplet for the cpu as everything else.
It requires an interposer and an io chip (which could be the console specific bit as that's logical lego based chip design) and a Gpu.
Why would the ps5 use a different Navi to the consumer pc space.
It doesn't make sense, it's going to be slightly different in memory architecture and possibly specs but the performance targets for Navi have been known for two years at least , Vega 64 at mainstream pricing.
And they'll be using RPM over specific compute hardware for rays so the change's in Gcn won't be too major i wouldn't imagine.
They've been working on the Gcn replacement but that is not Navi.
Are those additional taxes on top of sales tax ?
I really want to play a quality FPS using motion sensing instead of crappy controller.What are you talking about son?
PSV FTW!!
Just do a search for Playstation Tax
www.rt.com/usa/443987-chicago-gamer-amusement-tax/
fee.org/articles/chicago-s-new-playstation-tax-shows-how-greedy-politicians-can-be/
I believe this covers it at the bottom.
support.playstation.com/s/article/PlayStation-Store-Sales-Tax-Collection?language=en_US