PS5 Specs Revealed

We are mid ‘Road to PS5’ Livestream but we now have the raw specs for the PS5.

CPU: 8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.5GHz (variable frequency)
GPU: 10.28 TFLOPs, 36 CUs at 2.23GHz (variable frequency)
GPU Architecture: Custom RDNA 2
Memory/Interface: 16GB GDDR6/256-bit
Memory Bandwidth: 448GB/s
Internal Storage: Custom 825GB SSD
IO Throughput: 5.5GB/s (Raw), Typical 8-9GB/s (Compressed)
Expandable Storage: NVMe SSD Slot
External Storage: USB HDD Support
Optical Drive: 4K UHD Blu-ray Drive

The number most used to represent raw power lately is Teraflops. The PS5 boasts 10.28. The Xbox Series X has 12. Playstation is making up for it’s slightly weaker components with ‘boost’ to their core clocks. As we get more details on this ‘boost’ system we will update you here. This might be similar to overclocking which is commonplace for PC gamers.

Check out the ‘Road to PS5’ stream here: