Sony announced all PlayStation 5 configuration information

Not long after Microsoft officially announced the information of the Xbox Series X, Sony also officially announced the configuration information of its next-generation game console PlayStation 5.

In a live event hosted by PlayStation architect Mark Cerny, he revealed the following configuration information about the PlayStation 5:

PlayStation 5	PlayStation 4
CPU	8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.5GHz with SMT (variable frequency)	8x Jaguar Cores at 1.6GHz
GPU	10.28 TFLOPs, 36 CUs at 2.23GHz (variable frequency)	1.84 TFLOPs, 18 CUs at 800MHz
GPU Architecture	Custom RDNA 2	Custom GCN
Memory/Interface	16GB GDDR6/256-bit	8GB GDDR5/256-bit
Memory Bandwidth	448GB/s	176GB/s
Internal Storage	Custom 825GB SSD	500GB HDD
IO Throughput	5.5GB/s (Raw), Typical 8-9GB/s (Compressed)	Approx 50-100MB/s (dependent on data location on HDD)
Expandable Storage	NVMe SSD Slot	Replaceable internal HDD
External Storage	USB HDD Support	USB HDD Support
Optical Drive	4K UHD Blu-ray Drive	Blu-ray Drive

From the paper data of these hardware configurations, Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and Sony’s PlayStation 5 seem to have little difference. Both of them use AMD’s Ryzen processor and RDNA2 architecture GPU. Both support ray tracing, Scalable NVMe Flash Storage and similar technologies and hardware configurations.

The most interesting thing about PlayStation 5 is that Sony will allow users to replace the PlayStation 5 with third-party manufacturers’ solid-state drives.

Via: Eurogamer