Analyzing Sony’s PlayStation 4 Pro Hardware Reveal: What Lies Beneath

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Semi-Custom SoC Win</option> <option value="/show/10663/analyzing-sonys-playstation-4-pro-announcement/2">The Polaris Connection & Closing Thoughts</option> </select> </div> <div class="sidepadding review"> <div style="margin: 0 auto; text-align: center;"> <img src="https://images.anandtech.com/doci/10663/PS4Car_678x452.jpg" alt="" /> </div> <div style="float: right; margin: 13px 0px 15px 15px;"> <div id="middle_ad"> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="articleContent"> <p>A few months ago near the start of E3, Sony made an interesting revelation: that they would be releasing a higher performing PlayStation 4 console. A console intended to complement the standard/slim model, this faster PlayStation would be an unusual – if unprecedented – mid-generation update of sorts for Sony’s console family. Previous generations of consoles have offered add-ons, but a significantly faster model is something else entirely.</p> <p>In any case, after much speculation and a fair bit of analysis on how the PlayStation 4 ecosystem would work with multiple models, in an event in New York City this afternoon, Sony announced the new console. Dubbed the PlayStation 4 Pro, it would sit alongside the newly launched slimmer PS4 (an original PS4 with a die shrunk SoC) as a premium, more powerful entry in the PlayStation 4 family. The console  is intended to cover a spectrum of use cases for Sony, including 4K TV support, HDR, better VR performance, and higher fidelity graphics on today’s 1080p TVs.</p> <p>As AnandTech is not a gaming website, I’m going to skip the gaming ramifications. Instead, let’s do what we do best and dive into the hardware.</p> <h2>PlayStation 4 Pro: AMD’s Next Semi-Custom SoC Win</h2> <p>A bit to my surprise, Sony actually released some basic specifications about the underlying hardware. The information is similar to what we were given close to the PS4 launch, but at the same time I wasn’t expecting this information until we were closer to the PS4 Pro’s November launch.</p> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="575"> <tbody> <tr class="tgrey"> <td align="center" colspan="15">Sony PlayStation 4 Spec Comparison</td> </tr> <tr class="tlblue"> <td> </td> <td align="center" valign="middle">PlayStation 4 (OG)</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">PlayStation 4 (Slim)</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">PlayStation 4 Pro</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tlgrey">CPU Cores/Threads</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">8/8</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">8/8</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">8/8</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tlgrey">CPU Frequency</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">1.6GHz</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">1.6GHz</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">> 1.6GHz</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tlgrey">CPU µArch</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">AMD Jaguar</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">AMD Jaguar</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">AMD Jaguar</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tlgrey">Shared L2 Cache</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">2 x 2MB</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">2 x 2MB</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">2 x 2MB?</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tlgrey">GPU Cores</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">1152 (18 CUs)</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">1152 (18 CUs)</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">2304 (36 CUs)?</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tlgrey">Peak Shader Throughput</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">1.84 TFLOPS</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">1.84 TFLOPS</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">4.20 TFLOPS</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tlgrey">System Memory</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">8GB 5.5 Gbps GDDR5</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">8GB 5.5 Gbps GDDR5</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">8GB ? Gbps GDDR5</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tlgrey">System Memory Bus</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">256-bits</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">256-bits</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">256-bits</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tlgrey">System Memory Bandwidth</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">176.0 GB/s</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">176.0 GB/s</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">176.0 GB/s?</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tlgrey">Optical Drive</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">6x BD</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">6x BD</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">6x BD</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tlgrey">Power Consumption<br /> (Up To)</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">250W?</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">165W</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">310W</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tlgrey">HDMI</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">1.4</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">1.4</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">2.0</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tlgrey">Manufacturing Process</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">28nm</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">16nm?</td> <td align="center" valign="middle">16nm?</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>With a focus on increased performance, the heart and soul of the PS4 is a new, higher performance SoC from AMD. One of AMD’s semi-custom design wins for H2’16, Sony has released certain details that help paint a useful, though not quite complete picture of what this SoC can do.</p> <p>On the CPU side, Sony is not officially discussing clockspeed. However they have confirmed that it is still an 8 core Jaguar design like the original PlayStation, so there are no additional CPU cores in play. Furthermore the CPU clockspeed has been boosted by an undisclosed amount, so total CPU performance has increased.</p> <p>While I have some ideas on what those numbers may be, it does depend in part on how much work AMD put in on the semi-custom stage of the design process. The newer manufacturing process – which I believe to be TSMC’s 16nm since that is AMD’s regular semi-custom fab partner – certainly delivers some benefits. But at the same time the Jaguar architecture was not originally designed to scale to very high clockspeeds – keep in mind that this was a low power architecture to begin with – so there are frequency bottlenecks besides simple silicon limits. For reference, the fastest desktop Jaguar desktop processor topped out at 2.2GHz. Unless AMD has done any major reworking of Jaguar for Sony, that is about as good of a guess as we can make, short of Sony confirming any numbers.</p> <p>Meanwhile on the GPU side, things get a lot more interesting. The PS4 Pro’s SoC features a far more powerful integrated GPU, more than doubling the rated performance of the original PS4. Overall the PS4 is rated for 4.2 TFLOPs, versus 1.84 TFLOPs on the original console. In terms of raw throughput, this is to AMD’s current-generation mainstream discrete GPUs, offering throughput somewhere between the RX 470 (4.9 TFLOPs) and the R9 380X (4.0 TFLOPs).</p> <p>The significant increase in GPU performance is easily the biggest selling point of the new console, and is the cornerstone of Sony’s plans to pitch the console as a higher fidelity alternative to the stock PS4. This includes both higher quality rendering (e.g. more objects, better shadows, etc) and higher framerates, but also higher resolutions as well as part of Sony’s greater push to make the PS4 Pro synonymous with 4K.</p> <p align="center"><a href="https://images.anandtech.com/doci/10663/ps4-pro-screen-10-eu-06sep16.jpg"><img alt="" src="https://images.anandtech.com/doci/10663/ps4-pro-screen-10-eu-06sep16_575px.jpg" /></a></p> <p>As far as the GPU configuration goes then, officially we don’t have anything to work with besides the raw throughput. Clockspeeds and CU counts are both very good questions right now, as the jump to 16nm will have improved both AMD’s ability to pack in more CUs in a given area, and, at least to some extent, rev up the clockspeeds. So how AMD has opted to balance these factors is an interesting question.</p> <p>Given that GPU throughput has increased by 2.3x, my hunch is that AMD has pushed both aspects. A straight doubling in the CU count coupled with a modest (14%) increase in the GPU clockspeed would reach the stated performance numbers without too radical of an alteration of the GPU architecture. But there’s a lot of wiggle room here; it could just as easily be 34 CUs at a higher clockspeed, for example. A wider design favors power efficiency – which is always a boon in a console – but as 16nm is still a newer process, it’s a chip yield risk.</p> <p>Meanwhile, it’s important to note here that as we’ve seen in the discrete GPU space, shader throughput is not everything. Shaders are indeed frequently the biggest bottleneck to GPU performance, but they are hardly the only one. One way or another AMD has greatly increased the shader throughput of their SoC, but rather they’ve increased the unit counts on any other aspects remains to be seen. Whether they’ve added additional geometry units or ROPs could significantly influence the performance of the console, as it’s going to be relatively harder to fill up those expanded shader resources if these other resources weren’t similarly expanded. At the same time we don’t know anything about how the GDDR5 memory is clocked; I think it’s a safe bet that it’s clocked higher since the original console was only at 5.5Gbps, but even 7Gbps memory would only be 27% more memory bandwidth to feed a much wider GPU. In short, it’s best not to assume that all aspects of the GPU have been doubled, and consequently that the real world performance advantage for the PS4 Pro is not going to be quite as great as the GPU specs indicate.</p> <p align="center"><a href="https://images.anandtech.com/doci/10663/SlimandPro.jpg"><img alt="" src="https://images.anandtech.com/doci/10663/SlimandPro_575px.jpg" /></a><br /> <em>Slim PS4 next to PS4 Pro</em></p> <p>On that note, while Sony is pitching the console for 4K video and gaming, Mark Cerny was rather clear that to reach 4K gaming, they expect developers to make significant use of both spatial and temporal anti-aliasing/reprojection.to reach 4K. In other words, most of the time the console won’t actually be rendering games at 4K. This makes a lot of sense; all else held equal, the PS4 Pro needs to fill 4x as many pixels with a GPU that’s (at best) 2.3x as powerful.</p> <p>This means that the number of games that natively render at 4K is by necessity going to be relatively few. Games could still render at resolutions over 1080p (e.g. 2560x1440), giving them more fidelity than current 1080p games, but various upscaling/reprojection methods will have to close the gap to 4K. 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Its been released way too early!</span> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li id="cid516557" style="padding-left:18px;"> <h4><a>tipoo</a> - Thursday, September 8, 2016 - <a href="/comments/10663/analyzing-sonys-playstation-4-pro-announcement/516557" style="font-weight:normal; color:#8E8C8C;">link</a></h4> <span>Time will tell how it will shake out though. The way I see it, either the original PS4 starts getting back ports which aren't fully optimized for it (see Hyrule Warriors at a whopping 15fps on the OG 3DS), or the Pro never gets to fully stretch its legs. The latter is preferable.<br /><br />I think they may stick to an n-1 cycle. PS4+PS4 Pro supported. Next cycle, PS4 Pro + PS5 supported. Etc. Always two boxes, a master and an apprentice. </span> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li id="cid516573" style="padding-left:36px;"> <h4><a>SunLord</a> - Thursday, September 8, 2016 - <a href="/comments/10663/analyzing-sonys-playstation-4-pro-announcement/516573" style="font-weight:normal; color:#8E8C8C;">link</a></h4> <span>I doubt Sony is going to change it's certification standard so all new game will have to meet the current PS4 standards before its ships and given it's basically the same exact CPU as the PS4 at a higher clock the CPU will still be the systems weakest point.<br /><br />GPU wise the difference will be in min FPS and eye candy. I highly doubt developers will add extra stuff to games outside of dynamic stuff like ground clutter since all of the game will use the same discs. </span> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li id="cid516575" style="padding-left:54px;"> <h4><a>SunLord</a> - Thursday, September 8, 2016 - <a href="/comments/10663/analyzing-sonys-playstation-4-pro-announcement/516575" style="font-weight:normal; color:#8E8C8C;">link</a></h4> <span>This isn't like porting a game from the PS4 to XBOX and PC where developers can drastically modify the games between models they have one disc and one version for both console versions</span> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li id="cid516631" style="padding-left:72px;"> <h4><a>looncraz</a> - Thursday, September 8, 2016 - <a href="/comments/10663/analyzing-sonys-playstation-4-pro-announcement/516631" style="font-weight:normal; color:#8E8C8C;">link</a></h4> <span>Which is why they will adjust the eye candy and resolution first and foremost.<br /><br />The PS4 Pro is more likely to be receiving inferior content, rather than the other way around. It will just run the same game at a higher resolution and framerate, even if it could handle much more eye candy.</span> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li id="cid516655" style="padding-left:90px;"> <h4><a>Samus</a> - Thursday, September 8, 2016 - <a href="/comments/10663/analyzing-sonys-playstation-4-pro-announcement/516655" style="font-weight:normal; color:#8E8C8C;">link</a></h4> <span>I hope so. The nail in the coffin for this console revision "concept" going on right now in the industry is when exclusive features, not just additional eye candy, require the faster consoles. That is going to be one hell of a way to alienate gamers back to PC gaming where the upgrades are at least modular.<br /><br />If Sony is smart they will literally lock down the dev kits to only add antialiasing, higher output resolution, or some basic graphics optimization to the Pro mode of the game. Any further optimizations for Pro hardware such as exclusive game modes or split screen gaming are going to be outright bullshit.</span> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li id="cid516960" style="padding-left:90px;"> <h4><a>Peskarik</a> - Saturday, September 10, 2016 - <a href="/comments/10663/analyzing-sonys-playstation-4-pro-announcement/516960" style="font-weight:normal; color:#8E8C8C;">link</a></h4> <span>Dude, the modular upgrade on a PC (which for eye candy means discrete GPU) is more expensive than buying a new PS4.</span> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li id="cid516990" style="padding-left:90px;"> <h4><a>João</a> - Saturday, September 10, 2016 - <a href="/comments/10663/analyzing-sonys-playstation-4-pro-announcement/516990" style="font-weight:normal; color:#8E8C8C;">link</a></h4> <span>Dude, new PS4 Pro = 400$ vs new GPU (Rx 480) = 280$ (<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202223)," target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...</a> which allows better graphics</span> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li id="cid517027" style="padding-left:90px;"> <h4><a>tarfeef101</a> - Saturday, September 10, 2016 - <a href="/comments/10663/analyzing-sonys-playstation-4-pro-announcement/517027" style="font-weight:normal; color:#8E8C8C;">link</a></h4> <span>okay. not build a system for $400 new and make it equal to or better than a PS4 Pro. That's my problem with people who hate on consoles. They present way better value for people who only have that much cash for their gaming setup. And this is coming from someone with a $5K gaming PC. I am definitely a fan of PC gaming. But I also respect the validity of consoles (and own some myself)</span> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li id="cid517042" style="padding-left:90px;"> <h4><a>Ultraman1966</a> - Sunday, September 11, 2016 - <a href="/comments/10663/analyzing-sonys-playstation-4-pro-announcement/517042" style="font-weight:normal; color:#8E8C8C;">link</a></h4> <span>That's because a PC can do a whole lot more in addition to being a gaming machine; then the games are also a whole lot cheaper.</span> <div class="clear"></div> </li> </ul> </div> <nav class="page_nav"> <ul> <li> <div class="a"><label for="">1</label></div> </li> <li> <a class="jqc" href="/Show/Index/10663?cPage=2&all=False&sort=0&page=1&slug=analyzing-sonys-playstation-4-pro-announcement#comments">2</a> </li> <li> <a class="jqc" href="/Show/Index/10663?cPage=3&all=False&sort=0&page=1&slug=analyzing-sonys-playstation-4-pro-announcement#comments">3</a> </li> <li> <a class="jqc" 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