Recently, Sony announced the PlayStation 5 Pro, a gaming console that offers better specs than the original PS5.
The console offers a more powerful GPU, which offers 67 percent more compute units and 28 percent faster memory. This should allow for frames to render faster than on the original console. It should also have better real-time ray tracing, improving how light rays work for better lighting, reflections and shadows. It should be able to cast rays two to three times the speed of the original PS5. There’s also AI-powered upscaling as the PS5 Pro sports the New PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution that lets gaming engines calculate lower-resolution frames and then upscale them, which should also improve games that aren’t made for the PS5 Pro.
All this to say is that the PS5 Pro will enable visual and/or framerate enhancements in dozens of supported games, including Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Alan Wake 2, Ghost of Tsushima, Demon’s Souls, The Last of Us Part II Remastered, Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7 and Hogwarts Legacy.
However, the new disc-less console will cost $959.99 in Canada, while the Digital Edition PS5 model is priced at $579.99, so there’s a big difference in price. Since it’s disc-less, you’ll need to download digital games to its 2TB SSD or buy a $99.99 disc drive separately.
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