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[Draugoth]

PlayStation's Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) is Aiming for 4K 120FPS & 8K 60FPS

PlayStation's new Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR), which will be added into the PlayStation 5 Pro is aiming for 4K 120 FPS and 8K 60FPS.

insider-gaming.com

PlayStation’s new Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR), which will first be integrated into the PlayStation 5 Pro is internally aiming for 4K 120 FPS and 8K 60FPS console gaming, Insider Gaming has learned.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Whilst these are not the targets for the PS5 Pro due to hardware limitations, it is the internal goal for PSSR in future console interactions. The PlayStation 5 Pro PSSR currently supports 3840×2160 and is currently aiming for 4K 60 FPS and 8K 30FPS, but it’s unclear if those internal milestones can be passed.

 

[Wooxsvan]

important note about the headline...:
Whilst these are not the targets for the PS5 Pro due to hardware limitations, it is the internal goal for PSSR in future console interactions.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Frame Generation? Insert fake frames?

 

[Topher]

Whilst these are not the targets for the PS5 Pro due to hardware limitations, it is the internal goal for PSSR in future console interactions. The PlayStation 5 Pro PSSR currently supports 3840×2160 and is currently aiming for 4K 60 FPS and 8K 30FPS, but it’s unclear if those internal milestones can be passed.

Fine by me. PSSR is being baked into PS5 Pro specifically for 60 fps modes.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Don’t these frame generators add to latency?

 

[Fafalada]

Don’t these frame generators add to latency?

Not necessarily.
On PC its a lot less practical due to a host of reasons, but on console I could see frame extrapolation be useable. And that actually improves latency(not quite to the extent native Framerate does, about half way).

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Probably a real big deal when it comes to Gran Turismo in the future. I believe they've been doing 8K scans of vehicles to future proof them, someone correct me if I'm wrong on that.

I also think this has a lot of implications for a Sony handheld and delivering desired fidelity without sacrificing as much battery or requiring as much power. More convinced than ever that a PlayStation handheld is coming.

It also has major implications for cloud gaming in the future in tandem with the company SIE just bought for better compression... the combination could very well be the future of PlayStation.

 

[Gaiff]

Whilst these are not the targets for the PS5 Pro due to hardware limitations, it is the internal goal for PSSR in future console interactions. The PlayStation 5 Pro PSSR currently supports 3840×2160 and is currently aiming for 4K 60 FPS and 8K 30FPS, but it’s unclear if those internal milestones can be passed.

Yes, title definitely should be updated. It shouldn't be "PS5 is aiming for that," it should be "PSSR is aiming for 4K120 and 4K60 in FUTURE consoles".

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Headline is wrong Draugoth , they're specifically talking about PSSR which will be used starting with PS5 Pro and future PS console iterations.

PS5 Super Resolution doesn't even exist / make sense since PSSR is AI upscaling tech akin do DLSS / XeSS and will not be supported on the current PS5 HW.

 

[analog_future]

Don’t these frame generators add to latency?

For the Nvidia solution that is currently in place, due to Nvidia Reflex, no.

But what you're getting is the visual fluidity of 120fps with the input latency of whatever FPS it's actually rendering at. So it will look like/render at 90-100fps with frame gen but it will "feel" like 60fps in responsiveness, for example

Long story short is it's an amazing innovation in tech.

 

[rodrigolfp]

This thing is a beast.

RIP 14900K + RTX 4090.

 

[R3TRODYCE]

Sounds too good to be true.

 

[Duchess]

Sounds too good to be true.

Not if it retails at £799 / $899.

 

[R3TRODYCE]

Not if it retails at £799 / $899.

That’ll be a tough sell.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Great to see, this kind of tech is sorely needed for consoles.

Dumb question: how is this better/worse/different from FSR3? Is there potential for this tech to come to PCs as well?

Sounds too good to be true.

AI-based upscaling + frame generation have been a thing on PC for a while and the results are extremely impressive. There’s nothing unbelievable about this.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Fine by me. PSSR is being baked into PS5 Pro specifically for 60 fps modes.

Didn't Spiderman 2 already achieve 60fps with Raytracing?

Sounds like a rather small jump.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

Probably a real big deal when it comes to Gran Turismo in the future. I believe they've been doing 8K scans of vehicles to future proof them, someone correct me if I'm wrong on that.

I also think this has a lot of implications for a Sony handheld and delivering desired fidelity without sacrificing as much battery or requiring as much power. More convinced than ever that a PlayStation handheld is coming.

It also has major implications for cloud gaming in the future in tandem with the company SIE just bought for better compression... the combination could very well be the future of PlayStation.

When they did the premium car scans for Gran Turismo 5 they also said that they were "future proofed." Then Kaz decided they weren't good enough and had them do them again for GT Sport/7 lol

The first set of scans actually probably were good enough, but he is a perfectionist so......

 

[SmokedMeat]

Not if it retails at £799 / $899.

That’d be DoA.

 

[RoadHazard]

Sounds too good to be true.

Because it is. The title is wrong, the PS5 Pro isn't aiming for 4K120 or 8K anything. The PS6 will though.

 

[mrcroket]

8k requires 4x the power, so the "equivalent" for 4k 120fps is 8k 30fps.

 

[Topher]

Dumb question: how is this better/worse/different from FSR3? Is there potential for this tech to come to PCs as well?

My guess is Sony took FSR and fine-tuned it specfically for PlayStation hardware, PS5 Pro and forward. Doubt we see it on PC.

Didn't Spiderman 2 already achieve 60fps with Raytracing?

Sounds like a rather small jump.

Most devs don't achieve that though. Several devs complain about what it takes to get 60fps and this will help make that job easier.

 

[Skifi28]

This will not be misquoted. Looking forward to "We believe in 8k resolutions."

 

[Mibu no ookami]

When they did the premium car scans for Gran Turismo 5 they also said that they were "future proofed." Then Kaz decided they weren't good enough and had them do them again for GT Sport/7 lol

The first set of scans actually probably were good enough, but he is a perfectionist so......

8K is as future proof as you're going to get. In reality 4K is more than future proofed enough. 1080p was never got to be future proof.

 

[MikeM]

important note about the headline...:
Whilst these are not the targets for the PS5 Pro due to hardware limitations, it is the internal goal for PSSR in future console interactions.

Still wild if true. The death of 30fps can’t come soon enough. This would bring me back to consoles fulltime if true.

 

[saintjules]

Tom too likes to break up the reveal into certain pieces for foot traffic.

Kind of like how GAF does it, but with threads.

 

[Fbh]

On the one hand I think companies like Sony investing in upscaling and frame generation tech is really smart. As long as consoles remain affordable they'll always have to deal with hardware limitations, and this is a good way to get more out of weak hardware. If they can get their own tech that's as good as DLSS that's going to be a big boost for future consoles.

On the other hand though I'm not a fan of the current implementation of upscaling tech on consoles. I thought FSR2 would be used to get 1080p-1440p games to look a bit nicer, instead it seems like increasingly more devs are using it as an excuse to render at fucking 720-800p which looks terrible even with FSR. Hopefully this doens't just make the issue worse.

 

[TrebleShot]

Frame Generation? Insert fake frames?

Not frame Gen its an upscaler like DLSS 2

 

[saintjules]

Not if it retails at £799 / $899.

That’ll be a tough sell.

That’d be DoA.

May not be not the same thing, but if the Apple Vision Pro can sell 200k units at $3499, I think PS5 Pro has some chance at being successful.

Of course this isn't going to do the numbers that the base model is doing, but there will be a market for this thing.

 

[Mortisfacio]

This gen was already hyped to be 4k and instead we've had games like Jedi Survivor bottom out at 648p on PS5. I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Most devs don't achieve that though. Several devs complain about what it takes to get 60fps and this will help make that job easier.

Yeah, I get that.

Just funny to see people discussing the need for Sony to release a Pro to prevent gamers going to PC and then reading about a new rendering technique for a Pro to get from 1080p/60 to 1440p/60.

 

[twilo99]

That’ll be a tough sell.

I don’t think it will.

 

[K' Dash]

 

[twilo99]

Still wild if true. The death of 30fps can’t come soon enough. This would bring me back to consoles fulltime if true.

“Next gen” should see 30fps gaming disappear forever, which is overdue by about 10/15 years at this point.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Yeah, I get that.

Just funny to see people discussing the need for Sony to release a Pro to prevent gamers going to PC and then reading about a new rendering technique for a Pro to get from 1080p/60 to 1440p/60.

Its way more than just going from 1080p to 1440p

I just look forward to seeing this machine actually run and not what things say on paper.

 

[Topher]

Yeah, I get that.

Just funny to see people discussing the need for Sony to release a Pro to prevent gamers going to PC and then reading about a new rendering technique for a Pro to get from 1080p/60 to 1440p/60.

More to it than that, but I don't think that is why Sony is releasing a pro.

 

[Fake]

I need to see first what PSSR are capable of.

 

[Fafalada]

So it will look like/render at 90-100fps with frame gen but it will "feel" like 60fps in responsiveness, for example

Amusing fact here that is largely not known, but we already had some AAA games do exactly this(simulate at 30, output at interpolated 60) several generations ago(specifically on PS360).
And noone picked up on it(not even DF).

That said as I mention above, we can do even better.
Also I'd personally take frame gen as a mitigation for unstable fps, as opposed to using DRS and stuff. Its also more practical to do so on a console with full control over swap chain though.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Its way more than just going from 1080p to 1440p

I just look forward to seeing this machine actually run and not what things say on paper.

Just trying to follow the logic on Gaf.

We haven't even seen what PS5 is truly capable of as, apart from Spiderman 2, there is barely any real current-gen title that really tries to push PS5. Certainly not from Sony.
Spiderman 2 even managed to get a 60fps with ray-tracing mode, while Gaf claimed it would be impossible.

Now we have Gaf cheering about a Pro that goes 1440p/60.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Just trying to follow the logic on Gaf.

We haven't even seen what PS5 is truly capable of as, apart from Spiderman 2, there is barely any real current-gen title that really tries to push PS5. Certainly not from Sony.
Spiderman 2 even managed to get a 60fps with ray-tracing mode, while Gaf claimed it would be impossible.

Now we have Gaf cheering about a Pro that goes 1440p/60.

Going to be a lot of back and forth for the next 6+ months because how few people know what this PSSR is capable of and how Devs will use it

 

[Killjoy-NL]

More to it than that, but I don't think that is why Sony is releasing a pro.

And why I'll be there day 1.

This just shows how much of a joke Gaf is at times.

 

[MonkeyClaw36]

Whilst these are not the targets for the PS5 Pro due to hardware limitations, it is the internal goal for PSSR in future console interactions. The PlayStation 5 Pro PSSR currently supports 3840×2160 and is currently aiming for 4K 60 FPS and 8K 30FPS, but it’s unclear if those internal milestones can be passed.

Native 4K 60fps will never happen this generation. The hardware simply isn't up to par. Yes for indie games.

But we won't see a natively 4K rendered GT7 running 60FPS.
Checkerboarded 4K isnt the same as native 4K.

A lot of people fail to acknowledge this and will say "It runs GameX native 4K at 60fps." No it doest. It just doesnt.

 

[SplunkyMunkey]

So let me get this clear. This pssr thing ps5 pro can run games at Say 1800p and using this pssr can upscale the game to look like its running at 4k or 8k? Leaving alot of headroom for the cpu or gpu to maximise the fps to run at 60/120fps? Am I right?

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

My guess is Sony took FSR and fine-tuned it specfically for PlayStation hardware, PS5 Pro and forward. Doubt we see it on PC.

Mainly wondering if this is running on some version of RDNA 3/4/whatever or if it’s some proprietary Sony thing. If Sony really decided to roll their own upscaling/frame gen tech instead of going with AMD’s solution then that raises some interesting questions!

Either way it’s great to see this finally coming to consoles. It breaks my heart that gamers with their 4K120 TVs have to choose between like, upscaled 1080p vs 4K 30 FPS.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

So let me get this clear. This pssr thing ps5 pro can run games at Say 1800p and using this pssr can upscale the game to look like its running at 4k or 8k? Leaving alot of headroom for the cpu or gpu to maximise the fps to run at 60/120fps? Am I right?

Its how I THINK I understand one way it can be used

 

[MonkeyClaw36]

Not if it retails at £799 / $899.

This would be absolutely useless. You can buy a decent PC for that kind of money with (probably) similar specs.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Yeah, I get that.

Just funny to see people discussing the need for Sony to release a Pro to prevent gamers going to PC and then reading about a new rendering technique for a Pro to get from 720/50~60 to 1080p/60.

Ftfy. (FFXVI)

 

[Topher]

Mainly wondering if this is running on some version of RDNA 3/4/whatever or if it’s some proprietary Sony thing. If Sony really decided to roll their own upscaling/frame gen tech instead of going with AMD’s solution then that raises some interesting questions!

Either way it’s great to see this finally coming to consoles. It breaks my heart that gamers with their 4K120 TVs have to choose between like, upscaled 1080p vs 4K 30 FPS.

Some folks are fine with 4k 30. I don't get it, but that's fine. This ain't for them. To me, this takes away any excuse a dev has for 30fps only modes.

This would be absolutely useless. You can buy a decent PC for that kind of money with (probably) similar specs.

 

[MonkeyClaw36]

Its how I THINK I understand one way it can be used

Hope they switch GPU supplier then. AMD is subpar compared to Nvidia in this regard.
DLSS3 destroys AMD's FSR efforts.

 

[mckmas8808]

Whilst these are not the targets for the PS5 Pro due to hardware limitations, it is the internal goal for PSSR in future console interactions. The PlayStation 5 Pro PSSR currently supports 3840×2160 and is currently aiming for 4K 60 FPS and 8K 30FPS, but it’s unclear if those internal milestones can be passed.

This is very nice to know.