PlayStation 5 Pro to Introduce New First-Party Super Resolution Tech

Sony is giving final touches to a first-party super-resolution technology called PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution), according to a sensational new leak by Moore's Law is Dead. The company plans to debut the tech with the new PlayStation 5 Pro console, this November. The tech is unlikely to make it to the current PlayStation 5 console due to the underlying graphics architecture. PSSR, from the looks of it, is closer in function to NVIDIA DLSS than it is to AMD FSR. The tech leverages the over 300 TOPS of AI inferencing power of the RDNA 3 GPU powering the PS5 Pro, to drive an AI-based reconstruction algorithm. The RDNA 2-based GPU of the current PS5 lacks AI accelerators. The biggest driving force behind the PSSR development isn't just this AI-based upscaling tech, but the impact of upscaling tech on frame-times and whole-system latencies. PSSR apparently makes the PS5 Pro capable of being not just a 4K-class game console, but also one that's ready to take on 8K. Sony is, after all, a television company, and would want to create use-cases for its latest 8K televisions.