The PS6 and next Xbox console will see a power differential that is similar to that of the PS5 and Xbox Series X, according to a new rumor.
Known hardware insider KeplerL2 took to gaming enthusiast forums NeoGAF to claim that the PS6 GPU performs similar to the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and the next Xbox GPU performs close to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, indicating a similar power differential as that seen between the PS5 and Xbox Series X GPUs.
The hardware inside also mentioned that AMD’s RDNA5 GPU architecture is pretty forward looking, and that it will have every feature NVIDIA’s Blackwell has and even more. To clarify on the ways in which RDNA5 will exceed Blackwell, they shared some patents, which can be seen below.
- Dense Geometry Format (essentially a hardware level implementation of Nanite): WO2025085121 DENSE GEOMETRY FORMAT WO2025085120 INTERSECTION TESTING ON DENSE GEOMETRY DATA USING TRIANGLE PREFILTERING
- Streaming Wave Coalescer (Out-of-Order execution): US20250068429 STREAMING WAVE COALESCER CIRCUIT US20250130811 Spill-After Programming Model for the Streaming Wave Coalescer
- Workgroup self-launch (reduced CPU and GPU frontend bottlenecks): WO2025144455 LOCAL LAUNCH IN WORKGROUP PROCESSORS
- Many improvements to Ray Tracing cores (beyond current GPU architectures): US20250182377 CONFIGURABLE RAY/EDGE TESTING FOR CONVEX POLYGON GROUPS US20250200890 PRISM VOLUMES FOR DISPLACED SUBDIVIDED TRIANGLES US20250200865 RAY TRACING OF DISPLACED MICRO MESHES USING A BOUNDING PRISM HIERARCHY WO2025144454 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING RAY INTERSECTIONS WITH DISPLACED MICRO-MESHES
Recently, content creator Moore’s Law Is Dead shared details from alleged AMD presentations held in the year 2023, showing internal discussions between the chip maker and Sony Interactive Entertainment regarding hardware specs for the PlayStation 6 (codenamed Orion) and its portable companion (codenamed Canis). While the information is a few years old, it is implied that the console maker typically sticks to its early design goals. Read about it here.
