The PS5 Professional improves on the four-year-old commonplace mannequin with boosted internals. The upgrades begin with a GPU with 67 % extra compute items and 28 % sooner RAM. These permit it to (at most) triple the PS5’s ray-tracing efficiency, resulting in fancier lighting, reflections and shadows.

Within the PS5 Professional, Sony introduces its AI-powered reply to Nvidia’s DLSS, known as PlayStation Spectral Tremendous Decision (PSSR). Constructed for 4K TVs and shows, the tech upgrades lower-resolution frames to ultra-HD graphics “with astonishing element.”

The console additionally guarantees extra constant body charges (with much less graphical sacrifice) and help for 60Hz and 120Hz shows. For video games that aren’t up to date for the brand new console, a PS5 Professional model of Sport Enhance will present sooner and smoother body charges for over 8,500 supported titles, together with “a few of the PS4 and PS5 console’s best video games.”

The console contains 2TB of storage, double the unique’s capability. It additionally helps Wi-Fi 7 and 8K resolutions.

The PS5 Professional provides these upgrades in a well-recognized type issue: It has the identical peak as the unique PS5 and the identical width because the disc-less PS5 Slim. Just like the latter, you’ll have to pay additional for a disc drive or a vertical stand.

Choose video games from the PS5 library might be enhanced for the brand new console. The corporate’s launch occasion highlighted Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, The Final of Us Half 2 Remastered, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Aside and Horizon Forbidden West as a few of the first-party beneficiaries of the console’s upgraded capabilities. Third-party video games getting additional consideration for the PS5 Professional embrace Alan Wake 2, Murderer’s Creed: Shadows, Demon’s Souls, Dragon’s Dogma 2 and Closing Fantasy VII Rebirth. Video games patched for the $700 system might be designated with a PS5 Professional Enhanced label.

The PS5 Professional prices $700. You’ll be able to pre-order it at present, forward of its November 7 launch date.