Alleged information about the technical specifications of PlayStation 6 (code name - PlayStation Orion) has appeared online. If the data is correct, the PS6 promises a significant leap in performance, especially in ray tracing and artificial intelligence, although some parameters seem almost fantastical.
- Custom-designed chip (SoC) with a monolithic die area of approximately 280 mm²
- Manufactured on TSMC's 3nm process
- Processor: 7–8 Zen 6 cores + 2 energy-efficient Zen 6 cores (9–10 cores in total, depending on the model). Energy-efficient cores will be responsible for the OS and background tasks, freeing up to 20% of processor performance for games. Frequency 2.6–3.0 GHz, about 10 MB of L2 cache
- Rasterization: 2.5–3 times higher than PS5
- Ray tracing: equivalent to 34–40 TFLOPS, which is comparable to RTX 5090 in intensive ray tracing tasks
- GDDR7 interface with 160-bit bus width. Bandwidth: 640 GB/s
- Up to 40 GB of RAM. Sony is considering options with 30 GB or 40 GB depending on memory prices in 2027