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PS5 Pro with TWO graphics cards
- Thread starter Craig of War
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Slings and Arrows
Banned
Hypothetically,
Could the two gpus be for VR? one for each eye or is that just not realistic?
Could the two gpus be for VR? one for each eye or is that just not realistic?
oldergamer
Member
is this the dGPU?
ipukespiders
Member
VFXVeteran
Banned
I can't believe you said that.. because I 100% agree with you!
Not seeing a Pro edition of this elk - at all. Patents can be filed but don't mean they are iterated on. AMD/Nvidia has veered away from SLI configurations and it was a pain in the ass for PC games to work with them. With Sony going in the direction of supporting the PC with their games, I don't see the developers making their game engines have 2 paths. It would be cumbersome and take a lot of time to develop on due to complicated code - then only to get the rug pulled out from under them when the PS6 arrives as a more powerful *single* GPU.
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Concern
Member
He's only saying it out of spite that he bought a Ps5 already
Me choosing to wait and scalpers making sure I don't cave to fomo, makes this very intriguing for me lol. But double coil whine
HeresJohnny
Member
What a great idea! Put the idea out there that a better machine may be right around the corner and that the customer would be much wiser to wait. Genius!
Allnamestakenlol
Member
rnlval
Member
That's unlikely when Sony has near consistent chip area size budget since PS4.
PS5 Pro with 2 GPUs is the sucker punch Xbox Series X didn't see coming
The first piece of the Sony PS5 Pro puzzle might have just slotted into place, and Xbox Series X should be worriedwww.t3.com
"Just as the dust has begun to settle on the PS5 and Xbox Series X console launches, with the Microsoft flagship officially crowned the most powerful video game console on Earth, comes what could be our very first hint at Sony's incoming PS5 Pro counter attack.
That's because in an official Sony Interactive Entertainment patent published this year the console maker describes a new games console that comes with not just one graphics card, but two. A two-GPU next-gen games console? Whoa!
The patent describes a 'scalable game console' where 'a second GPU [is] communicatively coupled to the first GPU' and that the system is for 'home console and cloud gaming' usage.
To us here at T3 that suggests a next-gen PlayStation console, most likely a new PS5 Pro flagship, supercharged with two graphics cards instead of just one. These would both come in the APU (accelerated processing unit) format that the PlayStation 5's system-on-a-chip (SoC) do, with two custom made AMD APUs working together to deliver enhanced gaming performance and cloud streaming.
The official Sony patent notes that, 'plural SoCs may be used to provide a “high-end” version of the console with greater processing and storage capability', while 'the “high end” system can also contain more memory such as random-access memory (RAM) and other features and may also be used for a cloud-optimized version using the same game console chip with more performance.'
And, with the PlayStation 5 console only marginally weaker on paper than the Xbox Series X (the PS5 delivers 10.28 teraflops compared to the Xbox Series X's 12 teraflops), a new PS5 Pro console that comes with two APUs rather than one, improving local gaming performance as well as cloud gaming, would be no doubt the Xbox Series X as king of the next-gen consoles death blow.
The cloud gaming part of the patent is particularly interesting, too, as it seems to suggest that this technology could not just find itself in a new flagship PS5 Pro console, but also in more streamlined cloud-based hardware, too. An upgraded PS5 Digital Edition seems a smart bet, as too the much-rumoured PSP 5G.
And, simply put, the other big question this patent raises is that if this technology does lead to a PS5 Pro console, is Microsoft prepared? Right now Microsoft is still nursing its wounds from the last-gen console war, where it was firmly beaten by Sony (Sony sold more than twice the amount of PS4 consoles than Microsoft sold Xbox One consoles), so without facing down any new hardware from Sony with something as good if not better, it would leave itself exposed to a second straight console-gen defeat.
Will we see a PS5 Pro anytime soon? Here at T3 we think absolutely not – we imagine we'll get at least two straight years of PS5 before we see anything at all. As for a cloud-based next-gen PSP 5G, though...
PS4 = 348 mm2, 28 nm
PS4 Pro = ~321 mm2, 16 nm
PS5 = ~309 mm2, 7 nm
BiG NAVI RX 6800 XT is already 2X of PS5.
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Romulus
Member
And I don't think people would mind paying $1000 for $2000 performance. I don't think itll be that much though. Maybe $800 and the current scalper situation shows that people are willing to pay premiums if the games and tech are there.
Romulus
Member
The problem is current gen games are hitting 4k 60fps but without RT and next gen graphics.
I have no doubt Sony will come out with a hardware revision in two or three years, be it a slim or a pro or simply an update one of the current models, but I doubt it will be as simple as two GPU or external GPU. That didn’t work on pc for power and cooling reasons, I can’t imagine it would be any easier on console.
Strider311
Member
I’m still clinging to it with dual 2080’s. Needless to say, I pretty much never benefit from it because of the lack of support.
thismeinteil
Member
Wouldn't surprise me if true. It seems like it would be like the PS4 Pro, which basically had two PS4 GPUs within one APU. Probably would be using the upcoming 5nm tech to keep the APU a reasonable size.
Captain Hero
The Spoiler Soldier
Sorry but this is pure shit .. at least now. We just took our new consoles and you talk about a pro?!
4 years from now .. it will be acceptable to talk about it not to release it!
4 years from now .. it will be acceptable to talk about it not to release it!
Neo_game
Member
If they do release the Pro, there is very good chance it would be 72CU, like 6800XT. May be the SLI setup would be cheaper ? But as other said a single big gpu is more efficient. IMO if Xbox SS tanks in some years and PS5, SX can come down to around 300$ they might consider Pro models to extend this gen. Though this is probably unlikely.
Represent.
Represent(ative) of bad opinions
I'd buy it tomorrow.Imagine ND games on that sexual device
alucard0712_rus
Gold Member
Can you speak for yourself?
If there were PS5pro I will defenetely buy it instead of non-pro.
BootsLoader
Banned
This sum bullshit.
NinjaBoiX
Member
I’ve not bought a PS5 yet because there’s hardly any games and I want to wait a couple of months for them to iron out the kinks.
I sure as shit ain’t waiting 3-4 years for the Pro revision though, fuck that.
HerjansEagleFeeder
Member
That's exactly what the 9 year old me would have imagined the PS5 Pro to be like.
HerjansEagleFeeder
Member
Almost as likely to come true as this Sony patent:
Where can I preorder that cute Sony cloud?
TriSuit666
Banned
Exactly, it requires devs to support it, and I doubt there'll be a rush to make it happen.
And in fact nvidia stopped adding new sli profiles in January this year.
Radical_3d
Member
So, PS5Pro = ~290 mm2, 3 nm?
Shmunter
Member
We all have one inside us......*pffft*
