Announced with much anticipation, the PlayStation 5 Pro features powerful hardware with many premium specifications. The highlight is the GPU, which features more units and possibly a new architecture. But which graphics card sold on the market is equivalent to the PS5 Pro?
Before answering this question, it is worth noting that a console's specifications do not automatically translate to the parts of a PC. While comparing products based on their technical specifications is expected, a video game's performance is almost always unique.
This is because the number of different options and versions on a computer means that its performance is very different. On a console, the hardware will always be the same and the games are developed specifically for it, providing better optimization.
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PS5 Pro uses AMD
Sony has revealed that it has kept the PlayStation 5 Pro with an AMD chip. The big news is the improvement of the GPU. This component is physically larger and has 67% more CUs (Compute Units), which should greatly improve performance.
With the standard PlayStation 5, released in 2020 and with 36 CUs, equating the console with the Radeon RX 6700 XT was standard. This is a praised graphics card from AMD's last generation with 40 structures and RDNA 2 microarchitecture.
For the PlayStation 5 Pro, the closest we can get is a Radeon RX 7800 XT, with 60 Compute Units and updated RDNA. This model is not as popular as the previous card, but it has good performance and is sold at competitive prices in the market.
This GPU was released in August 2023. It was designed to run games at 1440p with maximum quality. However, with the help of technologies such as FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 and the frame generator (AFMF), the graphics card can run games at 4K without much difficulty—as long as you reduce the visual quality a little.
This matches the PS5 Pro and PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution), the console's upscaling technique. So, the device may have a similar performance to this card.
What about Nvidia?
As much as AMD has had a very interesting portfolio of GPUs in recent years, Nvidia dominates this segment. Analyzing the specifications coldly and comparing it to the Radeon RX 7800 XT, the Nvidia card that most resembles the PS5 Pro is between the RTX 4070 and the RTX 4070 SUPER.
The RX 7800 XT is usually superior to the RTX 4070, but there is sometimes a tie when it comes to ray tracing or upscaling. This leaves room for the RTX 4070 SUPER to be superior to both of these models—although it is also more expensive.
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PS5 Pro gets closer to mid-range GPUs
It's very likely that the PlayStation 5 Pro will perform very similarly to these graphics cards, especially since they are all designed for 1440p gaming and use upscaling to 4K resolution. In other words, the console is equivalent to the GPUs in the "premium mid-range" market.
With an Intel Core i5 or Ryzen 5 processor, users should see performance similar to Sony's new console. However, we'll have to wait until the PS5 Pro launches on November 7 to see whether the console has that much more firepower.
So, are you
interested in the PS5 Pro, and will you buy the $699.99 console?