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Sony Confirms Hardware Based Ray Tracing Engine in PS5

Who would have thought that the next generation of PlayStation console will be called “Playstation 5”. Right from the horse’s mouth, Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO Jim Ryan have confirmed in an interview with Wired the nomenclature.

Here are further juicy info that everyone was waiting for:

  • Name: Next Playstation console will be aptly called Playstation 5 (Shocker)
  • Shipping Date: The console will be launched in holidays 2020 (That falls near November 2020)
  • Ray Tracing: PS5 will have a dedicated hardware based ray tracing engine inside the GPU.
  • New Controller: The PS5’s controller will have improved haptic feedback using adaptive triggers.
  • SSD usage: Game install from physical media can be done partially on SSD

Apart from this we already know that PS5 will have AMD Zen CPU and Navi based GPU.

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