Sony playstation 5 will have a cpu with eight zen cores and will offer 4k at 60 fps

The current generation of game consoles has been widely criticized for being based on a low-performance Jaguar CPU from AMD, something that has been a very big problem in offering more than 30 FPS in leading games. Sony would have learned the lesson, and the next Sony PlayStation 5 will have a really powerful CPU, with no less than eight Zen cores.

Sony PlayStation 5 will have a CPU to match high-end PCs

Reddit user RuthenicCookie was correct to say that Sony will not be going to E3 2019, so it appears to have reliable information on Sony's future plans. According to RuthenicCookie, the PlayStation 5 will be announced sometime in mid-2019, and a full reveal will occur later in 2019. While the official announcement and presentation could occur next year, the actual console won't go on sale until May. or until November 2020.

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As for the specifications, RuthenicCookie claims that it will have an eight-core AMD Ryzen processor, surely a silicon manufactured at 7nm and based on the Zen 2 architecture, which will first see the light in the EPYC Rome processors. Added to this is the fact that previous rumors point to a GPU based on AMD's 7nm Navi architecture. The powerful CPU + GPU combination is said to be able to deliver sustained 60fps performance in 4K resolution.

The leap to Zen architecture is a logical evolutionary step for future consoles as well as the Navi GPU, making this data very credible. A Zen 2 8nm eight-core chiplet is very small in size, and its power consumption will also be very tight, so it's no shame to think of a sixteen-core eight-core CPU for the new consoles. If this is true, the PS5 will be really powerful, at least as far as CPU is concerned.

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