The PS5 Pro is currently on everyone's lips. In the meantime, Digital Foundry has revealed another detail about the mid-gen upgrade, which is primarily intended to enable upscaling to 4K for previous PS5 games.
In recent days there have been increasing reports of this PlayStation 5 Pro the round. Among other things, the supposed specifications were leaked, which confirm a significant increase in performance compared to the previous PlayStation 5 version. Now the colleagues at Digital Foundry have opened the next chapter.
Older PS5 games could receive a patch
According to a new report Digital Foundry see developer documentation that comes with the Specifications matches that had already been confirmed with our own sources. Accordingly, Sony should also have a DLSS equivalent for the PlayStation 5 Pro, which will be used to upscale 1080p games to 4K. This should also be backwards compatible with existing PS5 games and can be implemented via patches.
The upscaler “PlayStation Spectral Resolution” (PSSR) is intended to achieve similar results and resolution multipliers as Nvidia DLSS. Accordingly, a game that is rendered internally at 1080p should be upgraded to a convincing 4K image. Furthermore, PSSR should only require 250 megabytes of RAM.
This shouldn't be much of a problem as the PlayStation 5 Pro will offer an additional 1.2 gigabytes of RAM for games, according to Digital Foundry. Furthermore, games that suffer from image quality problems on the PlayStation 5 could particularly benefit.
Particularly interesting for games with poor image quality
As Digital Foundry's Richard Leadbetter describes, all games could benefit from PSSR, even if they are based on older development environments (SDKs). This is in contrast to the “Back Compat Plus” features that make PlayStation 4 games playable on the current console. To do this, the games had to run on modern SDKs. At least you wouldn't have to update the SDK for the existing PS5 games.
It should be clear that not all games will receive full upgrades on the PlayStation 5 Pro. But with a single patch the developers could at least support the PSSR.
Furthermore, Digital Foundry has once again highlighted that the PlayStation 5 Pro will benefit from higher frame rates, improved image quality and expanded ray tracing functions. So this mid-gen upgrade to Sony's console could be aimed at a niche audience even more than the PlayStation 4 Pro.
Accordingly, it remains to be seen when Sony Interactive Entertainment will officially announce the new console version. Then we should get a precise impression of what the PS5 Pro has to offer and which players will find the upgrade worthwhile. As soon as relevant details are revealed, we will let you know immediately.
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