Product Description

Playstation 5 hardware specifications

CPU

Playstation 5 hardware specificationseight x86-64-AMD Ryzen Zen 2 cores (16 threads), the variable frequency at up to 3.5 GHz

GPU architecture. buy PlayStation 5 with good hardware specifications

AMD Radeon RDNA 2-based graphics engine with hardware acceleration for ray tracing

GPU

36 compute units at a variable frequency up to 2.23 GHz (10.28 teraflops)

Memory / interface

16 GB GDDR6 / 256-bit

Memory bandwidth

448 GB/s

Internal storage

custom 825 GB SSD, PCIe 4.0

I/O throughput

5.5 GB/s (read), typical 8-9 GB/s (compressed)

Expandable storage

NVMe SSD expansion bay

External storage

USB hard drive support

Optical drive

4K Ultra HD Blu-ray

Video

HDMI 2.1 (support for 4K 120 Hz TVs, 8K TVs, VRR)

Audio

Tempest 3D AudioTech

Here is what we know from that reveal:

CPU: 8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.5GHz with SMT (variable frequency) vs 8x Jaguar Cores at 1.6Ghz on PS4.

GPU: 10.28 teraflops with 36 compute units at 2.23GHz (variable frequency) vs 1.84 teraflops and 18 compute units at 800MHz on PS4.

RAM: 16GB GDDR6/256-bit vs 8GB GDDR5 and 256-bit on PS4.

Internal Storage: Custom 825GB SSD vs a 500GB HDD on PS4.

Expandable Storage: NVMe SSD Slot

Playstation 5 hardware specifications

The amount of RAM in the PS5 is about what we expected, given modern PC comparisons, but it’s a lot of RAM for a video game console, which typically has small amounts compared to their PC cousins.

The PS4 only has 8GB of RAM and the PS4 before it had a paltry 256MB! Not even a single gigabyte! As we’ll soon discover in the storage section of this page, this amount of RAM is helpful, but it will be pushed to new heights of efficiency in combination with the SSD inside the PS5.

It’s interesting to look back at predictions like this one.