Wednesday, September 7th 2016
Sony Launches AMD "Polaris" Powered PlayStation 4 Pro
Sony today announced an addition to its PlayStation family of entertainment systems, with the new PlayStation 4 Pro (PS4 Pro). The PS4 Pro isn't meant to succeed the PS4, and is still a "current generation" console, in that all of its games are compatible with the PS4, and there won't be PS4 Pro-exclusive games. What sets it apart is higher-resolution game rendering that looks best on 4K Ultra HD TVs. This doesn't necessarily mean that the games are being rendered at 3840 x 2160 pixels. They could be rendered at resolutions higher than 1080p, and using just the right upscaling algorithms, made to look significantly better than 1080p. Another key visual component is hardware HDR. The PS4 Pro falls in line with Sony's big push for 4K HDR TVs this holiday shopping season.
Under the hood, the PlayStation 4 Pro features an all new semi-custom SoC designed by Sony and AMD. The CPU component sticks to the "Jaguar/Puma" architecture, with 8 cores, but features higher CPU clock speeds. The 8 GB GDDR5 memory is said to run at higher clocks, too, and is bolstered by new lossless memory compression tech by AMD. The GPU component is where the action is. The GPU features over double the shading power of the PS4, and is based on the "Polaris" GPU architecture. The PS4 Pro also ships with a bigger 1 TB hard drive. There is seamless interplayability between PS4 and PS4 Pro. PS4 games you already own are being added with higher-resolution content meant for PS4 Pro. The console also has the muscle for PS-VR. For those still holding on to 1080p HDTVs, the PS4 Pro rewards with higher visual detail, more geometric complexity, and better effects, at that resolution. The PS4 Pro starts at $399.
Under the hood, the PlayStation 4 Pro features an all new semi-custom SoC designed by Sony and AMD. The CPU component sticks to the "Jaguar/Puma" architecture, with 8 cores, but features higher CPU clock speeds. The 8 GB GDDR5 memory is said to run at higher clocks, too, and is bolstered by new lossless memory compression tech by AMD. The GPU component is where the action is. The GPU features over double the shading power of the PS4, and is based on the "Polaris" GPU architecture. The PS4 Pro also ships with a bigger 1 TB hard drive. There is seamless interplayability between PS4 and PS4 Pro. PS4 games you already own are being added with higher-resolution content meant for PS4 Pro. The console also has the muscle for PS-VR. For those still holding on to 1080p HDTVs, the PS4 Pro rewards with higher visual detail, more geometric complexity, and better effects, at that resolution. The PS4 Pro starts at $399.
81 Comments on Sony Launches AMD "Polaris" Powered PlayStation 4 Pro
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You do realize neither MS nor Sony and with the introduction of the WiiU neither Nintendo makes profit but rather a loss on the sale of a console right?
The money is in the games that are being sold.
I think a hybrid drive would have been a great option but an extra cost that probably couldn't be absorbed.
I wont be buying it but it is cool. With Microsoft putting their Forza games on PC now I have zero need for a console.
As for upgrading to PS4 Pro, eh. It's just upscaling and really even a 1TB drive is too small if you play a lot of different games. I upgraded my current PS4 to a 2TB drive ages ago for about $90. And unless they sell a ton of them there won't be a big incentive for game devs to spend resources adding PS4 Pro content.
Not that i care about power usage and all that stuff (The slimline version), but the PS4 Pro seems like a solid and neath upgrade for my PS3.
Sofa gaming.
Don't care about "new piece of silicon craaaaap just releazorzed by some f*cking f*ck".
What's wrong with it?
Or do you mean the part when they stopped jumping from CPU architecture to CPU architecture between generations?
What's wrong with backwards compatibility?
Now we are seeing performance issues, need for patches and in this case an upgraded version of the same console you bought...
I mean sure you dont have to upgrade but everything is better on this newer version.
You say "Don't care about "new piece of silicon craaaaap just releazorzed by some f*cking f*ck"." yet that is exactly what this upgraded ps4 is about...
And then we have the focus on television with the Xbox One when that was launched and that a lot of people now use their consoles for other purposes then gaming.
You can call it a plus that consoles now can do more then ever, but its getting further and further away from indeed the point of a console, it just changes them in PC's.
Yeah....if you are going to use that logic I might as well say the PS4 is going to be free because mine "fell of the back of the truck".
And I think he meant having a bluray player in your pc....
But apart form all of that, you are a bit slow I must say, this anti console debate has been had YEARS ago and its already "solved" with arguments, really no need to get into that dumb stuff again.