Sony unveils its PS5 Professional console, which can price you a whopping $700

Sony has formally introduced the much-anticipated PS5 Professional. You may have to dig deep into your pocket for it, although: the brand new console has a price ticket of $700 and it’ll arrive on November 7.

The Professional affords some notable enhancements on the specs of the unique PS5, which was launched in 2020. Sony targeted on three core upgrades: a bigger GPU, superior ray-tracing and AI-driven upscaling.

That GPU has 67 p.c extra compute models and 28 p.c quicker RAM than the usual PS5. As such, based on the console’s lead architect Mark Cerny, the brand new console will have the ability to ship as much as 45 p.c quicker rendering. Ray-tracing efficiency may very well be as much as thrice as quick as on PS5. In the meantime, Sony’s AI-upscaling tech (i.e. its tackle the likes of NVIDIA’s DLSS) is named PlayStation Spectral Tremendous Decision, or PSSR.

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