Although the PS5 has not been able to be sold in stock, it has not affected the progress of SONY’s development of the next generation of game consoles.
After excavation by foreign media, AMD is recruiting new SoC verification engineers, whose job responsibilities are to develop a new generation of chips for PlayStation and Xbox. It is reported that the work place is in Markham, Canada’s “high-tech capital”.
Foreign media tend to believe that this is a signal that the PS6 has started research and development. Of course, some netizens think that there is still a PS5 Pro?
According to the past pace of SONY and Microsoft, the mid-term facelift will usually be launched following 3-4 years, and the new generation of products will wait until 6-8 years later.
Back to the chip itself, the PS5 uses AMD’s semi-custom 7nm SoC for SONY. The CPU part is an 8-core Zen 2 architecture with a maximum of 3.5GHz; the GPU part is a 36CU RDNA 2 architecture with a floating-point computing performance of 10.3T.
From this point of view, the CPU part of the PS5 Pro or PS6 has Zen 3, Zen 3+, Zen 4 architecture and other options, and the GPU part will be upgraded to at least the RDNA 3 architecture.
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