Sony PS5 Launch Date, Powered by AMD RYZEN & NAVI GPU Made for PlayStation 5, Reports Say

  • The PS5 has been confirmed by Sony, and now PlayStation fans have been given a massive hint about when the PS4 successor might be released.
  • Industry analysts have so far been predicting that the PS5 could have a release date in either 2019 or 2020.
  • Rumors say that PS5 dev kits have already backwards compatibility with the PS4 and potentially will only play digital games.

PS4 and PS4 Pro continue to sell incredibly well and the system’s exclusive library has plenty of support leading into 2019 with titles like The Last of Us Part 2 and Death Stranding still to come. According to the report, many developers questioned, including those at Sony’s first-party studios “have not yet been briefed on the existence of a PlayStation 5.”

Schreier writes: “In summary: There is information about the PlayStation 5 floating around at both first- and third-party companies, but it’s far more limited than it would be if the console’s release was imminent.”

Reports And Rumors On PS5 Hardware & Release Date

A Kotaku report states the PS5 may not arrive until 2020 at the earliest, which may disappoint some, but it’s hardly surprising considering how successful Sony has been of late.
This information, reported by Jason Evangelho at Forbes, would explain parts of the matter, when AMD first talked about Vega at its Sonoma event in 2015, it stated Polaris would be a major GCN revamp, While it’s true that Vega makes some significant changes to GCN and was obviously rebuilt to focus on hitting higher clock speeds, clock-for-clock, Vega isn’t much more efficient than GCN was in shipping titles. Comparisons (exteremtech.com) found gains of 1-5 percent for the newer architecture. That was much smaller than the gains we had expected, and it played a part in why Vega hasn’t been as effective a competitor against Nvidia’s GTX 1070 and 1080 GPUs as AMD might have liked.

As Exteremtech reports, AMD’s GPU roadmap has been substantially aligned to meet semi-custom needs ever since it won the PS4 and Xbox One contracts. Pulling resources from Vega to finish Navi is interesting and has some indications in it. Given the relative importance of Sony as an AMD customer, AMD would be in a lot pressure to meet Sony’s needs. The further implication is that Sony’s PS5 will target midrange PC market performance for its 2020 console, though we can also assume that the game system will pack more firepower overall than the PS4 Pro.

Forbes Report on Sony PlayStation 5 Is Powered By AMD Ryzen

Forbes just reported that Based on strong evidences the next Sony PlayStation 5 is going to be made by AMD, just like the last one. And this new version is going to have Ryzen on it.

there is strong evidence to suggest that Sony is tapping AMD’s Zen CPU architecture for its next-generation PlayStation 5 console. A senior programmer inside Sony has been actively working on improving certain aspects of the Zen core’s microarchitecture for some reason.

As Eurogamer points out, there’s only one logical reason that Sony would be leveraging Zen architecture to improve a key part of its developer toolchain: because Ryzen is a key ingredient in the PS5.

The good news is that Digital Foundry and NX Gamer have some educated guesses about the hardware that stands a good chance of showing up in the next-gen consoles. They also considered when that hardware can be manufactured at the scale needed to supply a console launch. The next-gen chips are expected to be built with TSMC’s 7nm finFET process. TSMC claims the 7nm process can deliver either a 40% increase in performance or a 65% reduction in power over the 16nm process.

Both the PS4 and Xbox One consoles use custom-built versions of AMD’s Jaguar chips. It would make a lot of sense for Sony and Microsoft to stick with AMD and use a CPU based on its newer Zen architecture. SoC’s based on TSMC’s 7nm finFET process and GDDR6 memory are expected to go into mass production before the end of 2018. AMD’s Zen 2 CPUs and Radeon’s Navi GPUs are expected in 2019, while Radeon’s new graphics chips based on the Zen architecture are targeted at 2020.

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