PlayStation 5 General Breakdown (What is known so far)

With next-generation consoles just over the horizon it's never been a better time to start investigating if your pre-order will be worth the investment. Sony's PlayStation 5 is slated to release during holiday 2020. What a better time to see a wrapped box under your Christmas tree? One thing is for certain, the Specifications of Sony's PlayStation 5 will surely be a monumental upgrade over the previous generation.

First we have the CPU ("AKA the brains of the console) 

 This new system will utilize 8 Zen 2 cores clocking in at around 3.5 GHz, compared to that of the PlayStation 4's 8 Jaguar cores clocking in at a measly 1.6 GHz. In layman's terms, The PlayStation 5's CPU is roughly 60% faster than that of the PlayStation 4. Fair enough, Sony claims that this new console will be over 100 times faster then the previous generation, whilst coupling a solid state hard drive as well in the system. 

Now on to the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) 

The PlayStation 5 will be utilizing a whopping 10.28 teraflops, with 36 CUs (Computing Units) at 2.23 GHz - these computing units will be operating on variable frequency, which basically means that this speed may drop given the workload put on the console. What will undoubtedly open a lot of eyes is the new GPU architecture this new console will be utilizing called RDNA 2 technology. This will bring forth ray tracing to the table, which will take full use of reflections and shadows in order to make games as true to life as possible. Just imagine being spider-man swinging from skyscraper to skyscraper rendered in true to life image quality... sounds pretty sweet right? 

Here comes the shell shocker SSD storage!

I make that proposition because Solid State Hard drives have been around for years and finally consoles will be making use of them. The base model of the PlayStation 5 will sport a 825 GB SSD effectively delivering 5.5 GB/s of performance/speed. In efforts to eliminate all the technological jargon that no one really understands/cares about, this new SSD will use the most powerful PCIe 4.0, which will make it roughly 100 times faster then the PS4's current hard drive. Loading times will be cut down significantly or become nonexistent, and video game developers will be able to utilize faster visual rendering by introducing instant teleportation to different areas of a game and all in all this will make games feel a lot smoother and polished.

Lastly, there comes the console design of the PlayStation 5  

 (Image Credit:Sony) 

Some say it resembles a WiFi router, I for one love the two tone color design and futuristic look Sony is after.