We’re providing a hefty helping of table salt along with this one, because taking this news with a grain of salt is simply not enough. PlayStation 5 specs and details have allegedly been posted by a site called SemiAccurate. Aside from the irony of the site name not slipping by us, the full article is locked behind a $1000 per year subscription to the site, and without the ability to fork over such a large sum, we’re left with others summing up the details for us.
What gives this leak a little bit of traction is SemiAccurate’s previously accurate early reporting on who got info right about Nintendo partnering with Nvidia for the Switch and correct PS4 specs back in 2012. They also correctly reported on the mid-gen upgrades before Sony and Microsoft announced the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X respectively. With accurate early leaks of console hardware details in their portfolio, it’s worth paying attention to what the site has to say about the PlayStation 5. While we have yet to see the article ourselves, and anyone else reposting it word-for-word is not allowed, one ResetEra member was able to give a brief summary of the locked article’s contents. -Uses AMD’s Navi as its base architecture, not specifically using Navi

-CPU is custom Zen

-Large amount of devkits have apparently gone out.

-Author suggests 2018 release of PS5 is not out of the question based on the amount of devkits released as this is a “sure sign that the launch is gett...