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After the leak, Digital Foundry dug into the specs of the PS5 Pro and confirmed the additional DDR5 RAM thanks to an official English spec sheet from Sony. The spec sheet also revealed that the console will offer a power supply rated for a maximum 390W and the 16.7 teraflop custom AMD Radeon GPU.
The PS5 Pro is coming very soon. Sony already announced it with a hefty $700 price tag, and the release date is coming up on November 7.
However, despite it not officially shipping to those lucky enough to pre-order one, some people have managed to get their hands on the console early. A Brazilian content creator on X by the name of Brunno Fast is one such person, and they shared what they claimed are the full specs of the PS5 Pro console.
This is an X user sharing the specs, so take it with a grain of salt, as these sorts of things can be faked.
Most of the specs were already known. The processor is listed, as are the various ports, the 2TB SSD capacity and even the console's dimensions can be clearly seen on the Portuguese language spec sheet.
However, one piece of information is new and very unexpected — Sony has apparently threw an extra 2GB of DDR 5 RAM into the PS5 Pro. Now, the main RAM powering the console is 16GB of GDDR6, so, interestingly, the company is using DDR5 for this extra batch of RAM. However, the OS will likely use additional memory, not games.
So, if this is RAM designed to power the operating system, why is it exciting? This means that game developers can tap into all 16GB of GDDR6 RAM, offering extra gaming performance.
That, along with the PS5 Pro offering 67% greater computing power than the base model PS5 in raw TFLOPS, could make the console much faster than the current consoles.
We'll have to wait until we get our hands on the PS5 Pro to verify the RAM bump, but if the leak holds, it'll be interesting to see how much of a performance gain this spec leak brings to the table.
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