The PlayStation 5 (PS 5) Is Rumored to be The Most Powerful Console of All Time Thanks to AMD 7nm CPU and GPU

PS 5 to Feature AMD Ryzen and AMD Navi

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The next-gen consoles are really exciting for gamers as they might make 4k gaming mainstream. Sony’s next-gen consoles the PS 5 is definitely happening as confirmed by Sony and it is rumored to use AMD’s Ryzen CPUs and 7nm AMD Navi. This will make the PS 5 the most powerful console of all time.  Unlike recent gaming consoles, it isn’t going to be held back by its CPU.

PS 5 Rumored to Feature AMD Navi and AMD Ryzen

Thanks to a recent rumor by Eurogamer, we know that someone at Sony is working with Ryzen technology. 

“A principal programmer at Sony associated with the firm’s Advanced Technology Group is working with AMD’s Ryzen technology, improving the Zen core’s micro-architecture support within the LLVM compiler stack – a key component of a tool used in the PlayStation 4 development environment. Of course, there is no PS4 product using the Ryzen processor, leading to speculation that this is related to a prospective next-gen PlayStation 5 console currently in development.

The evidence – unearthed by Linux-specialist site Phoronix – shows the highly experienced Sony programmer making a number of commits to the LLVM github over the last few weeks, all of them related to the “znver1″ architecture, the codename for AMD’s first generation Ryzen processors. On top of that, information on LinkedIn confirms the staffer’s involvement in compiler development for PlayStation hardware. Game credits in Media Molecule’s Tearaway and Evolution Studios’ DriveClub confirm that the developer is also a part of Sony’s Advanced Technology Group, which serves a number of roles in the Sony organisation.”

This is not all, thanks to other sites on the internet, we know that the PS 5 is going to feature 7nm AMD GPUs, AMD Navi. According to AMD, Navi is going to “catapult gaming forward.” AMD is going to announce their next-gen 7nm GPUs in an upcoming keynote in CES 2019. Thanks to its 7nm size, AMD Navi is going to be much more power efficient than current gen GPUs. 

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