Leaked Specs Imply PlayStation 5 Will Be Powerful, But Maybe Less So Than the Xbox Series X - Videogames Blogs

Leaked Specs Imply PlayStation 5 Will Be Powerful, But Maybe Less So Than the Xbox Series X



With the next-gen console due to come out at the tail end of 2020, many people (especially us here at PlayStation LifeStyle) are super excited for the PlayStation 5. While Sony hasn?t done much in the way of nailing down official specs?other than saying it will have an SSD, a 4k Blu-Ray player, and dropping some tantalizing hints about its controller?those specs may have been leaked. Thanks to a report by Eurogamer analyzing the leaked PS5 specs, we have a better idea of the possibility behind the PlayStation 5?s internal workings. The first question is if this leak is accurate and how it was gotten ahold of. An employee at AMD was storing fragments of information on GitHub since sometime around June or July. The information first hit the public around August via Twitter and was recently independently verified by Eurogamer/Digital Foundry. (Editor?s Note: The specifics get a lot more technical than that, but that?s the basics of it in layman?s terms.) The current leak doesn?t have any information on the PS5?s CPU, but we do get some interesting ideas about its GPU. At the very least we know it?s a custom unit made specifically for the PS5, and that it contains similar components to the currently available AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT. However, what really seals the deal that this is a custom unit is that it has three different settings: the basic setting for the PS5, and then one that emulates the PS4 and another for the PS4 Pro (to support backwards compatibility). Eurogamer also...
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