Openings Sony For PlayStation 5 Specifications

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JAKARTA - Sony has finally revealed more information about the hardware specifications that will be embedded in the PlayStation 5 (PS5). This was announced by Sony in a live streaming.

As is well known, fans are looking forward to the next-generation console from PlayStation. But unfortunately it is still not revealed by Sony in the near future.

Launching from IGN News, Sony's live streaming event will be held on March 18 at 9 am local time, or Thursday, March 19 in the morning for Indonesia. So far, Sony has confirmed that the PS5 will use an eight-core CPU based on the 3rd generation AMD Ryzen CPU, as well as a custom GPU with the AMD Radeon Navi architecture.

PlayStation's super-fast graphics performance (Sony PS5 / YouTube screenshot)

This console will also support 8K resolution, 3D audio, 4K 120Hz, low power consumption options, and super fast GPU performance reaching 10.28 teraflops. This console also has 16GB of GDDR6 RAM and 825GB SSD for storage.

PlayStation hardware team leader Mark Cerny said the PS5's rendering capability will work very fast when playing games with AAA graphics capabilities even. When compared to where the PS4 console takes about 20 seconds to load one gigabyte of data, then on the PS5 it is possible to load five gigabytes of data in one second.

"Say where the frequency of the hardware runs varies depending on CPU and GPU demand. That means the PlayStation 5 can play more old and new games for years to come, where the CPU and GPU won't always hit the 3.5GHz and 2.23GHz figures," "said Cerny.

For more than an hour, Sony only examined the specifications up to the audio capabilities of the PS5 which will become the next-gen console. Not a few gamers also hope that Sony will announce the price range for the console, the release date, and show the gameplay of one or two exclusive games that can be played on this PS5 console.

Moreover, this Sony event was held a few days after Microsoft revealed the full specifications of the Xbox Series X. Where the Microsoft console comes using a custom AMD Zen 2 CPU with eight cores with a speed of 3.8 GHz, as well as a custom GPU with AMD RDNA architecture 12 teraflops and 52 computes. units with a speed of 1.825GHz each.

For storage, the Xbox Series X comes with 16GB of GDDR6 RAM with 1TB of NVMe SSD storage which can be added up to 1TB. It's a bit disappointing for fans, not a few commented that this live streaming event is a kind of lecture class from Sony.

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- Lusor 🅙 (@YTLusor) March 18, 2020

Although it has not been confirmed with certainty, it is likely that the shape of the PS5 will not be the same as the leaked console currently circulating. It also includes what color it will use, considering that when Sony launched the PS4 this console came all black with a sleek shape.