PS5 Pro specs leak: Storage and performance leak

The Nintendo Switch 2 may be the most anticipated new gaming console, but it's not the only console in development. We've seen plenty of reports claiming that the PlayStation 5 Pro would hit stores in late 2024, and we've even seen PS5 Pro specs leaked along the way, teasing the PlayStation 5 performance improvements that Sony is about to offer.

Now, there are more comprehensive PS5 Pro spec leaks circulating. The difference this time is that Sony has started to investigate the source of the leaks. This seems to indicate that the leak is genuine.

As Gizmodo reports, it all started last week. YouTuber Moore's law is dead shared the alleged specs of the unannounced PS5 Pro in a long video. They came from internal documentation that was apparently leaked. You can watch the video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV7BJKnZfP8

On Monday, Indoor GamesPS5's Tom Henderson covered the PS5 Pro specs leak in much more detail. In previous coverage, Henderson confirmed that the leak Moore's law is dead it was real because the documentation mentioned by the YouTuber came from a PlayStation developer portal. Sony apparently sent these documents to a “broader group of third-party developers.”

Henderson later noted in a post on X that Sony had launched an internal investigation aimed at finding the person who leaked the specs:

As expected, Sony has launched an internal investigation into the leaked Trinity documents as they were leaked during a third-party release.

I'm still not sure of the implications as I don't think they can capture an individual, but Sony could reduce their pool of third-party developers to new ones...

-Tom Henderson (@_Tom_Henderson_) March 18, 2024

Indoor Games reported that documents leaked last Thursday confirmed the following PS5 Pro GPU specifications:

• 45% rendering faster than PS5
• 2-3x Ray Tracing (x4 in some cases)
• 33.5 teraflops
• PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution Upscaling) upscaling/antialiasing solution
• Support for resolutions up to 8K is planned for future SDK releases
• Customized machine learning architecture
• AI Accelerator, supporting 300 TOPS 8-bit compute / 67 TFLOPS 16-bit floating point

Here are additional PS5 Pro spec details that Indoor Games published on Monday.

• System memory: 576 GB/s (18GT/s) – An increase of 28% over the standard console.
• CPU: Identical to the PS5, but with “a 'high CPU frequency mode' that takes the CPU to 3.85 GHz – a 10% increase over the standard console.”
• Audio: “ACV on PlayStation 5 Pro runs at a higher clock speed compared to the standard PlayStation 5, resulting in the ACM library having 35% more performance.”
• More GPU details: “30 WGPs running specialized BVH8 transverse shaders vs 18 WGPs running BVH4 transverse shaders on the standard PlayStation 5.”
• SSD: 1 TB of storage.
• Removable disk drive to make the PS5 Pro as “competitive” as possible.

The blog doesn't mention the price of the PS5 Pro, but it does say that the console is expected in fall 2024. If you want to know even more about the PS5 Pro, Digital Foundry published a report of its own on Tuesday, commenting on the leak and providing new details.

That said, Sony won't be confirming any of this anytime soon, even if the leaks are real and even if it's investigating the incident. If the PS5 Pro does indeed launch this year, we'll likely have to wait a few more months for the full reveal.