The PS4 Pro includes 4.2 TFLOPs, which means it can handle 4.2 trillion floating-point calculations per second. The PS4 Pro, on the other hand, looks more like a traditional console and is likely to sit unobtrusively with any entertainment set up. You can take a look at our list of the best PS4 games here. The PS5’s increased graphical fidelity is, presumably, to push games to resolutions never seen before.

Sony famously took a huge loss on each PS3 sold in 2006, with the $599 model costing the company around $840 to produce. With the PS5, its clock speed will vary based on the game and how much is required of the GPU. However, as we recently discovered, there will actually be two PS5 SKUs — a standard version with a disc drive, as well as the all-digital edition, without a disc drive. Like the PS4 Pro, the PS5 will also use a custom AMD Radeon chip, but as you’d expect, the newer system will be more powerful.

In the PS5 technical reveal, system architect Mark Cerny explained why this was the case, stating that a graphics core with 36 CUs running at 1GHz would produce the same number of TFLOPs as a 48 CU core running at 750MHz — 4.6 TFLOPS — but gaming performance would not be equal. Luckily, the PS5 will have us covered on that front. We covered it briefly above, but yes, there will be two PS5 SKUs: A standard edition and a digital edition. The two models were revealed during the recent PS5 Future of Gaming event, but there’s still a lot we don’t know about them. So if you're all about access to the latest and greatest it's worth noting that the PS5 will have the lead on that front for some games. Assuming the GPU has the horsepower to push 60 frames per second and above, you should be able to take advantage of a high refresh rate TV with the PS5.
Additionally, you can expect haptic feedback from the DualSense, replacing the old rumble feature from the DualShock 4. That might sound bad, but considering game prices have stayed the same since 2005, it’s about time we saw an increase in cost. A listing on Amazon Germany recently leaked the PS5’s weight and it’s apparently going to be 10.54 pounds — nearly 3 more pounds than the PS4 Pro. With the idea of power and size, we do know the PS5 will support larger games than the PS4 Pro. Kraken is a newer compression and decompression algorithm from RAD Game Tools, which can compress files smaller than ZLIB, as well as decompress them faster. Send me details about other relevant products from Techradar and other Future brands. By contrast, the base PS4 can output at 1080p, often decreasing resolution in-game based on power consumption, and the PS4 Pro can output at 4K. Instead, the DualSense has a bit more heft to it and comes in a mashup of black and white, mirroring the console itself.

The PS4 Pro vs PS5 dilemma is going to be one faced by a lot of gamers in the coming months but to help you pick the console that's best for you we've created a … Fast-forward seven years later to 2013 and the Xbox One suffered a similar fate due to its $499 price point — $100 more than the PS4’s. The model on the left, the all-digital edition, is slightly sleeker, due to its lack of disc drive. If you’re still holding onto an original PS4, you’ll see slightly more storage, with the base PS4 model sporting 500GB of storage and the PS5 shipping with 825GB. Speaking of which, we don’t know when we’ll get our hands on the PS5, as Sony has yet to announce a release date. As soon as the PlayStation 5 is available to pre-order,we'll email you with all of the best deals and bundle offers. Though, that idea has mostly been squashed due to the wording of Sony’s marketing for its new system. In 2006, that was a huge turn-off and would likely still steer potential buyers away today. In the same post, Nishino also said that the team expects backward-compatible titles to run at a boosted frequency on PS5. Sure, you’re losing 175GB of storage space, but the benefits of the SSD cannot be overstated.
During system architect Mark Cerny’s “The Road to PS5” speech, we got our first look at the PS5’s specs. As pointed out during Cerny’s discussion, the PS5 can do what the PS4 Pro can do, but with much less effort, due to its modern architecture.