News Sony: PS5 Will Feature AMD-Accelerated Ray Tracing

[Admin]

Sony confirmed the console will be called the PlayStation 5, will ship this holiday season and will feature hardware-accelerated ray tracing from AMD's chips.

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[drivinfast247]

"This holiday season". As in the next 2 months? That's cool if true.

 

[WillieMac16]

Apparently no one at Tom's bothered to read the article they linked in their own post. This holiday season =/= 2020 holiday season (fiscally, yes...but to consumers, no). But even then, the 2020 holiday season will really be 2021 fiscally...

 

[setx]

support gaming at up to 8K resolutions

I guess you will be able to play Tetris at native 8K with decent fps, the rest would be upscales with obvious quality.

 

[hannibal]

No... it will run text menus in games at full 4K resolution. Tetris is too demanding for that!
Ps 4 and PS3 Are 1080p consoles. They have output that support 1080p... same in here, just in 4K.

 

[Giroro]

"The optical drive, which supports 100GB optical discs "

Oh man, Just think of how great lossless audio would sound if those 700MB CDs were replaced with... well anything mordern, really.
Probably not Blu-Ray since PC support and DRM for that was so bad it basically killed optical media (not to forget how slow those live ad-filled menus are)... and nothing flash-based since it would be crapped up with DRM, but maybe like a single layer DVD or something, at least... which they would also crap up with DRM... Actually maybe they shouldn't touch CDs since it was the last good physical music format.

 

[bit_user]

Most people assumed its next console would be the PlayStation 5--it hasn't deviated from that naming convention since the PlayStation 2 debuted in 2000

Well, if you ignore the PS4 Pro...

 

[TerryLaze]

Ah! the rebirth of 24FPS "cinematic" gameplay.
But then again devs will widely ignore raytracing if it's too slow.