The YouTube channel Moore's Law Is Dead, once again, has got its hands on a detailed, complete and apparently legitimate list of the technical specifications of the upcoming PlayStation 6 console.
PlayStation 6, 6 to 13 times faster for Ray Tracing compared to the PS5££££
Let's start with the most impressive data, Ray Tracing. Where previous leaks for its calculation mentioned a multiplication of between 5 and 10 in speed compared to the PS5, this update goes to a range between 6 and 12, which is the level of the best current graphics card from Nvidia, the GeForce RTX 5090.
PlayStation 6, 8 Zen 6C cores and 54 RNDA computing units 5££££
The speed of classic 3D rendering - or rasterization - observes for its part a multiplication between 2.5 and 3.5. The APU (chip which groups the central processor CPU and the graphics processor GPU) is said to be a monolithic model (all components in the same place) of 280 mm² manufactured with TSMC's 3 nm engraving process, leading to a lower power consumption (estimated at 160 W of maximum thermal power) compared to the PlayStation 5-Pro released last year. The CPU would be clocked from 8 Zen 6C cores (7 of which are fully activated) to which would be added 2 low-power Zen 6 cores, dedicated to system tasks. The GPU would have 54 RDNA 5 Compute Units, at a frequency between 2.6 GHz and 3 GHz, with 10 MB of L2 cache.
PlayStation 6, from 30 to 40 Tflops compared to 16.7 Tflops for the PS5 Pro££££
A configuration which would offer between 34 and 40 teraflops of theoretical power, compared to 10.28 TFlops for the PS5 and 16.7 TFlops for the PS5 Pro. Note however that this unit of measurement is now considered outdated for estimating the real power of a console. The memory would use a 160-bit bus with GDDR7 memory, for a bandwidth of 640 GB/s, and would support up to 40 GB of RAM (Sony would choose between 30 GB or 40 GB of RAM, depending on the cost). Finally, we learn that production should begin in mid-2027 for a commercial release planned for fall 2027.
