PlayStation 5 Pro
Variant of PlayStation 5
- Manufacturer
- Sony
- Released
- 2024
- Generation
- Gen 9
- Type
- Home
- Launch price
- $699
- Media
- Disc
- Units sold
- 80.0M
About PlayStation 5 Pro
The PlayStation 5 (PS5) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment as the fifth iteration of their PlayStation brand. It was announced as the successor to the PlayStation 4 in April 2019, and was launched in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, North America, and South Korea on November 12, 2020, and worldwide a week later. The PS5 is part of the ninth generation of video game consoles, along with Microsoft's Xbox Series X/S consoles, which were released the same month.
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Library & collector facts
What's different from PlayStation 5
- GPU ~67% larger with 33% more compute units (RDNA 3+/4 hybrid features)
- PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) — AI-driven upscaling, Sony's answer to DLSS/FSR
- Advanced ray tracing (2-3x faster)
- WiFi 7 support
- 2TB SSD default
- Game Boost / PS4 Pro Boost-style enhancements for older titles
- Included disc drive (Pro is digital-only by default — $80 disc drive sold separately)
- Included horizontal stand (continued from Slim controversy)
- price: $499 PS5 → $699 USD launch (no disc drive included, no stand) — most expensive PlayStation launch ever
- marketing: Standard 4K → '8K-ready' (criticized as misleading — no 8K games shipping)
- target resolution: 4K 60fps target → 4K 60fps with PSSR + ray tracing or 4K 120fps in select titles
Lineage
Pricing
Launch price (2024)
- 🇺🇸 USD
- $699
Controller
DualSense (Edge) / DualShock 4
Launch titles & exclusives
Astro's Playroom (pre-installed) · Demon's Souls Remake · Spider-Man: Miles Morales · Sackboy: A Big Adventure · NBA 2K21 · Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War · Assassin's Creed Valhalla · Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition · Godfall · Bugsnax
Astro's Playroom (pre-installed on every PS5)
Astro Bot (2024, AAA full release) · Demon's Souls (2020 remake) · Returnal · Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart · Marvel's Spider-Man 2 · Final Fantasy XVI (timed) · Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (timed) · Stellar Blade (timed) · Rise of the Ronin · Helldivers 2 (also PC) · God of War Ragnarok · Gran Turismo 7 (also PS4) · Horizon Forbidden West (also PS4) · Death Stranding Director's Cut
Still in production (active platform)
20th Anniversary-equivalent variants not yet released; Spider-Man 2 Limited Edition (2023) is the highest-profile collector SKU; God of War Ragnarok Jotnar Edition sealed (~$500+)
Hardware specs
- Weight
- 3.1 kg
- Dimensions
- 388 × 89 × 216 mm
- Cpu
- Custom AMD 8-core Zen 2, Base & Silm: Max clock speed is 3.5 GHz, Pro: Max clock speed is 3.85 GHz
- Gpu
- Custom AMD Radeon, Base & Slim, RDNA 2-based architecture, 36 CUs at max clock 2.23 GHz, 10.28 TFLOPS peak, Pro, RDNA 2 & RDNA 3-based with RDNA 4 Ray_tracing_(graphics)#Interactive_ray_tracing, RTRT cores mixed architecture, 60 CUs at max clock 2.35 GHz, 18.05 TFLOPS peak
- Ram
- 16 GB GDDR6 SDRAM, 512 MB DDR4 RAM (used as SSD controller cache), 2 GB DDR5 RAM (used for system; Pro only)
- Sound
- Tempest Engine 3D Audio, Dolby Atmos, 7.1 surround sound, DTS:X (Blu-ray & UHD Blu-ray video)
Hardware revisions
- Original PS5 CFI-1000(2020)
launch hardware, large form factor, full Tempest 3D audio, 825GB custom SSD
- CFI-1100(2021)
lighter heatsink (controversial — some reviews argued thermal throttling worse, others showed it fine)
- CFI-1200(2022)
smaller heatsink, lower power draw
- PS5 Slim CFI-2000(2023)
smaller form factor, detachable disc drive option, 1TB SSD
- PS5 Pro CFI-7000(November 2024)
enhanced GPU, PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution AI upscaling), $699 USD, disc drive sold separately
Launch colorways & special editions
- 30th Anniversary Edition (2024, PS1 gray, paired with 30th DualSense Edge and disc drive — extremely limited 12,300 units globally)
- Astro Bot Pro Bundle (announced)
- future limited editions TBD
Modding scene
- Difficulty
- soft-mod
- Custom firmware
- No public CFW as of early 2026; security research ongoing but no publicly exploitable jailbreak for modern firmware
Reception & legacy
Strong but supply-constrained — sold out for nearly two years due to global semiconductor shortage and scalper activity; reviews praised SSD load times and DualSense haptics
$699 launch price with no included disc drive and no stand was widely panned — total cost-to-equivalent of base PS5 disc + Pro stand approached $830; '8K' marketing criticized as misleading; PSSR launch titles showed visible artifacts in some games (Silent Hill 2, Jedi Survivor) — Sony issued patches
Defined the SSD-as-design-feature generation (instant load times, streaming-from-disk architecture); DualSense haptics and adaptive triggers became the most-imitated controller innovations in years; Astro Bot's 2024 success revived the platformer-as-flagship template
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