Unlike previous rumors of the PS5. This is a visit to Sony and interview with Mark Cerny. But it does confirm much of previous rumors: Zen 2, Navi, Ray Tracing, SSD, 8K support:
https://www.wired.com/story/exclusive-sony-next-gen-console/
https://www.wired.com/story/exclusive-sony-next-gen-console/
PlayStation’s next-generation console ticks all those boxes, starting with an AMD chip at the heart of the device. (Warning: some alphabet soup follows.) The CPU is based on the third generation of AMD’s Ryzen line and contains eight cores of the company’s new 7nm Zen 2 microarchitecture. The GPU, a custom variant of Radeon’s Navi family, will support ray tracing, a technique that models the travel of light to simulate complex interactions in 3D environments. While ray tracing is a staple of Hollywood visual effects and is beginning to worm its way into $10,000 high-end processors, no game console has been able to manage it. Yet