All You Need To Know About PS5

PS5 is a great deal like an extremely great deal cuz’ if you want to make a PC with that performance it will cost you 3 times more.

PS5 comes in two options:

• Digital Edition (without an Optical Drive)
• With an Optical Drive

Like I said you would need 3 times more money to make a PC with PS5 specs, but what are the specifications?

• CPU: Ryzen Zen 8 Cores / 16 Threads at 3.5GHz
• GPU: 10.3 TFLOPS
• GPU Architecture: AMD Radeon RDNA 2-based graphics engine
• Memory/Interface: 16GB GDDR6/256-bit
• Memory Bandwidth: 448GB/s
• Internal Storage: Custom 825GB SSD
• IO Throughput: 5.5GB/s (Raw), Typical 8–9GB/s (Compressed)
• Expandable Storage: NVMe SSD Slot
• External Storage: USB HDD Support
• Optical Drive (optional) : Ultra HD Blu-ray (66G/100G) ~10xCAV
• PS5 Game Disc: Ultra HD Blu-ray, up to 100GB/disc
• Audio: “Tempest” 3D AudioTech
• Video Out: HDMI Out port
  Support of 4K 120Hz TVs, VRR (specified by HDMI ver 2.1)
• Power: PS5–350W / PS5 Digital Edition — 340W
• Bluetooth 5.1
• Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T)
• Input/Output: USB Type-A port (Hi-Speed USB)
  USB Type-A port (SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps) x2
  USB Type-C port (SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps)

Other PS5 Features

• PS5 supports expandable storage, but don’t buy an NVMe drive without Somy validation if you want to use it with the console.
• Confirmed PS5 accessories.
• PS5 will support backward compatibility (That means all the PS4 games will be available on PS5 too).

• At first, some games may be released on both the PS4 and PS5 at the same time.
• PS5 offers a digital-only version and one which can support physical media. Both options will be available at launch.
• Game installations will be more configurable thanks to the way the SSD works.
• Game sizes should smaller or, at least, better optimized.
• PS5 will have some form of cloud functionality.
• PS5 PSVR support.
• The PS5 home screen will be more dynamic.

All the PS5 accessories

• Dual Sense Controller

• Headset

• PS5 Media Remote

PS5 Release Date

• Thursday, November 12th — US, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea
• Thursday, November 19th — the rest of the world, including the UK

The price of the PS5 was announced to be £449.99 in the UK, while the digital edition will be £359.99.

What we don’t know about PS5 so far

• PS5 Backwards Compatibility beyond the PS4
• Voice control is currently unconfirmed

PS5 UI is finally revealed

• Finally, we see the PlayStation 5’s home screen — this is what you see when you turn on the PS5 after you’ve fully turned the console off. It’s pretty different from the PS4’s offering, but not radically so. Games and Media are separated into different tabs.