90%
Highly Likely
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[ORIGINAL STORY] There's been a lot of talk lately about Sony's formally unannounced (as of yet) PlayStation 6 console. The most recent report from earlier today revealed that Sony is even considering delaying the PS6's tentative 2027 launch window to 2028 or even 2029, largely due to the ongoing RAM and storage crisis that has driven component prices literally through the roof.
The report came from MST Financial Senior Research Analyst David Gibson, who had already suggested last month that the PlayStation 6 could be delayed beyond previous estimates, thus also extending the lifecycle of the current PlayStation console, the PS5.
But the PS6 discussion also includes the early rumors on the console's specs. Those started in earnest a few months ago, when YouTuber Moore's Law Is Dead shared estimates from leaked internal AMD presentation slides, revealing that the PlayStation 6 was targeting 34 to 40 teraflops and a massive (6x-12x) ray tracing performance uplift.
A month earlier, AMD leaker KeplerL2 had compared the upcoming PS6 console with the existing AMD Radeon 9070XT graphics card, the current flagship of the so-called Red Team, with one key difference: the 9070XT is powered by RDNA 4 architecture, while the PS6 would be powered by the upcoming RDNA 5 architecture, which the leaker said would be even more feature-rich than NVIDIA's current Blackwell GPU architecture.
Now, though, KeplerL2 has clarified in a post submitted on the NeoGAF board that the PlayStation 6 won't actually include the full RDNA 5 feature set, likely in a bid to keep costs down. KeplerL2 had previously said AMD is planning to launch the first RDNA 5 graphics cards in 2027 after NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 60 Series. Up until a few months ago, he was also confident that the next PlayStation console would launch in 2027, though he added, "unless unexpected delays happen."
The PS6 is already considered to be less powerful than the next Xbox console, which might very well launch next year. If the PlayStation 6 specs remain the same, without even the full RDNA 5 feature set, and the console gets delayed to 2029, it could force hardcore users eager for next-gen gaming to switch to Xbox, and also require Sony to be very aggressive with pricing if it really comes in that late to the market. If nothing else, it would throw a little spice in a console war that seemed already done and dusted in favor of Sony. On the other hand, the specs are only one component of a console war, and the PS5 also did not include all of the features from the RDNA 2 architecture.
Meanwhile, here's what we do know will probably be in the PlayStation 6 after Mark Cerny's tease:
- Neural Arrays: A collection of compute units that are configured to share and process data, working together as if they were a single AI engine.
- Radiance Cores: New, dedicated hardware for ray traversal to deliver high-performance, real-time ray tracing and path tracing.
- Universal Compression: A system that evaluates and compresses all available GPU data to dramatically reduce memory bandwidth usage.
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