Sony Interactive Entertainment’s upcoming mid-gen console, the PS5 Pro, features 2 GB of extra DDR5 RAM for OS and non-gaming applications.
The official safety guide that comes inside the PS5 Pro packaging has emerged online ahead of the console’s unboxing embargo on November 4, 2024, revealing that it comes with 2 GB of additional DDR5 RAM, a 16.7 TFLOPS GPU, and a 390 Watt power supply. For the sake of comparison, the base PS5 comes with a 350 Watt power supply, although its actual power consumption is closer to 200W when running demanding games. For the PS5 Pro, power usage is estimated to fall between 240W and 260W under heavy loads, which suggests that the console’s SoC may be fabricated on 6nm rather than the previously rumored 4nm process.
The addition of 2 GB of extra DDR5 memory is very similar to the approach taken with the PS4 Pro, where dedicated RAM was included in order to serve OS operations and non-gaming applications, freeing up the main pool of 16 GB GDDR6 memory for developers to utilize in games.
In terms of GPU specs, Sony Interactive Entertainment opted not to state the dual-precision TFLOPS figures in its official documentation, contrary to earlier leaks suggesting that it would. Instead, the manual shows the standard TFLOPS measurement, indicating that the GPU may reach a peak clock speed of about 2.18GHz. This use of traditional TFLOPS figures allows for more linear comparisons with the base PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, though it’s worth taking into account that TFLOPS comparisons across GPU architectures can be somewhat unreliable. That said, AMD’s RDNA3 and RDNA2 architectures are relatively similar in terms of rasterization performance.
Recently, it was also revealed that the PS5 Pro features a new setting to improve image quality for PS4 titles. The new toggle, called “Enhance Image Quality for PS4 Games,” is said to improve the visual quality of some PS4 titles, but may cause issues in certain games and can be disabled if required.
