Sony PlayStation 5 Pro launched: Five things to know about PS5 Pro

Sony launched PlayStation 5 Pro in select markets on Thursday, months after it was anunced in September. spruced-up version of PS5, new PS5 Pro offers vanced ray tracing capabilities, artificial intelligence-based upscaling techlogy, and upgred hardware that, company claims, can run over 50 titles, which will be available at launch.

Sony PS5 Pro price

new PS5 Pro costs $699.99 (approximately Rs 58,750) in US, while its counterparts in UK, Europe, and Japan sell at £699.99, €799.99, and ¥119,980, respectively. An attachable disc drive is available separately at $79.99, while a vertical stand costs $29.99 as an d-on. Sony's PlayStation 5 Pro is retailing at PlayStation's online and offline stores and participating retailers. But word from Sony on when PS5 Pro will go on sale in India.

Indian buyers can continue to buy Sony PS5 and PS5 Slim models, meanwhile.

Sony PS5 Pro specifications

new Sony PS5 Pro features several hardware upgres that Mark Cerny, le architect of PS5 Pro, claims will enhance rendering speeds by 45 per cent. This improvement will provide better detail in select games at specific frame rates. According to Sony, re are three key vancements:

1. An upgred GPU that has 67 per cent more compute units than existing PS5 Slim and 28 per cent faster memory.
  
2. vanced ray tracing capabilities, which allow for more dynamic reflections and refractions of light in supported titles. Cerny stated that this enables rays to be cast at double, and sometimes triple, speeds of current PS5 console.

3. New AI-powered upscaling techlogy called PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, which utilises machine learning to deliver sharper ims in select games.

ditionally, PS5 Pro includes a Game Boost feature that makes over 8,500 backwards-compatible PS4 games playable on new console. It also supports Wi-Fi 7 in certain regions and variable refresh rates (VRR) and 8K resolution.