Rumor: Sony bought Remedy Entertainment and Housemarque, PlayStation 5 more powerful than Xbox Series X

Company Microsoft yesterday told in detail about iron and features Xbox Series XHowever, as it turned out, the correct technical characteristics of the console were merged into the network three months before.

In particular, back in December last year, a forum user Neogaf under the nickname Tommy fisher reported that Xbox Series X will receive a GPU on the architecture of RDNA 2 with a capacity of 12 TFLOPS c 52 computing units operating at a frequency of 1.82 GHz, which is fully confirmed.

Since the user information about the new Xbox turned out to be accurate, another leak with the characteristics of the PlayStation 5 graphics chip may also be true. He argued that a much similar GPU would be installed in the Sony console, but a more efficient cooling solution would increase the frequency of computing units to 2 GHz, which would increase power to 13.3 TFLOPS.

In addition, in his words, the PlayStation 5 will surpass the Xbox Series X in size and throughput of RAM, offer twice as fast SSD and more efficient acceleration of ray tracing, but it will be about 6% faster in CPU speed and worse in terms of noise from the fan. although the difference will not be as big as in the case of c X1X and PS4 Pro.

What else was Tommy Fisher talking about?:

  • The PlayStation 5 is more than eight times more powerful than the PS4 and four times more powerful than the PS4 Pro. The casing of the console is comparable in volume to the original PlayStation 3;
  • Backward compatibility PS5 will work with almost all games available on previous generations of the PlayStation, and the console will be able to independently increase the initial frequency and resolution, that will allow to pass Demon’s souls in 4K / 60FPS. For this reason, Bluepoint Games does not work on a remaster of the original game, but is engaged in remaking a much more ancient title.
  • Sony bought the studio Remedy entertainment and Housemarque, a Techland now belongs Microsoft.

Read also: The Foundation – trailer, details and screenshots of the first story extension for Control from Remedy Entertainment.

Add to our Telegram channel via the link or search for it manually in the search by name gmradost. There we publish, including that which does not fall into the news feed. Also subscribe to us in Yandex.Zen, Twitter and VK. And do not forget that we have a dark theme and a ribbon instead of tiles.