Leaks and rumors about the performance of the future PS6 console have significantly increased lately. Last Friday, YouTuber Moore's Law Is Dead shared estimates of the PlayStation 6's rasterization performance, suggesting that it would be three times as fast as the base PlayStation 5, which would put it around the level of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4080. Later, the same YouTuber commented that the performance uplift during ray tracing operations will be much higher, between five and ten times as fast as the base PS5.
Now, though, AMD insider KeplerL2 has shared different predictions. According to him, the PS6 will be around the performance level of the AMD Radeon RX 9070XT, AMD's current flagship GPU. However, the next-generation Xbox will be slightly more powerful, with KeplerL2 comparing it to NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5080. Both consoles will be powered by AMD's RDNA 5 architecture, which KeplerL2 reckons will be the largest architectural overhaul since the Graphics Core Next (GCN) era. Additionally, the insider said it will have even more features than NVIDIA's latest architecture, Blackwell; to prove that, the insider linked to several AMD patents:
- Dense Geometry Format (basically HW level Nanite): WO2025085121 DENSE GEOMETRY FORMATWO2025085120 INTERSECTION TESTING ON DENSE GEOMETRY DATA USING TRIANGLE PREFILTERING
- Streaming Wave Coalescer (out-of-order execution): US20250068429 STREAMING WAVE COALESCER CIRCUITUS20250130811 Spill-After Programming Model for the Streaming Wave Coalescer
- Workgroup self-launch (reduced CPU and GPU-frontend bottlenecks): WO2025144455 LOCAL LAUNCH IN WORKGROUP PROCESSORS
- Many improvements to RT cores (beyond current uarchs): US20250182377 CONFIGURABLE RAY/EDGE TESTING FOR CONVEX POLYGON GROUPSUS20250200890 PRISM VOLUMES FOR DISPLACED SUBDIVIDED TRIANGLESUS20250200865 RAY TRACING OF DISPLACED MICRO MESHES USING A BOUNDING PRISM HIERARCHYWO2025144454 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING RAY INTERSECTIONS WITH DISPLACED MICRO-MESHES
Microsoft did promise its fans a year and a half ago that the next console would deliver the 'largest technical leap ever' seen in a hardware generation. Considering these consoles are still two to three years out, we may have to wait a long time to get the official specs. That said, we'll keep reporting on credible leaks and rumors in the meantime.
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