Sony's PS5 Pro Brings 55 Games with Ray-Tracing and AI-Powered Visuals for $699—Is It the Console Upgrade You Need?

Sony’s beefed-up PS5 Pro drops on November 7 for $699.99, packing some serious muscle under-the-hood. The tech nerds at Digital Foundry got their hands on a review unit, confirming what the specs sheet promised – an AMD Ryzen Zen 2 processor with 8 cores and 16 threads paired with an RDNA graphics engine pumping out 16.7 teraflops. For reference, that’s a massive jump from the standard PS5’s 10.23 teraflops.

The memory setup is pretty sweet too – you’re getting 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM for your games plus 2GB of DDR5 RAM dedicated to keeping the system running smoothly. They’ve thrown in a 2TB custom SSD because who doesn’t need more storage these days? The power supply runs at 390W compared to the regular PS5’s 340W, but here’s a neat trick – they actually made it lighter at 3.1kg versus the original’s 3.9kg.

Mark Cerny broke it down during his September tech talk that PS5 pro has made three substantial improvements – much larger GPU that increased the memory speed by 45%; major upgrades in ray-tracing that allows calculation of rays at double or triple its speed in PS5; and machine learning and an AI Library called PlayStation Spectral Super resolution or PSSR for short.

But specs mean nothing without games, right? Sony’s dropping this thing with 55 games ready to flex those enhanced muscles. We’re talking Alan Wake 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, the new Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Spider-Man 2, Star Wars: Outlaws – all tuned up with PS5 Pro enhancements. Thanks to the split memory setup, devs can push better ray-tracing, implement that fancy new PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution upscaling, and hit those butter-smooth 60 or 120 frames per second, depending on your TV.

The PS5 Pro’s 45% rendering boost isn’t just marketing speak – it’s coming from real architectural improvements. When you’re plugging through Baldur’s Gate 3 or swinging through New York in Spider-Man 2, you’ll see sharper textures, more detailed environments, and better lighting without taking a hit to performance.

Looking at the market context, this is Sony’s mid-gen power play. It’s fully backward compatible with regular PS5 games, but gives developers extra horsepower to push their games further. The 55 launch titles show there’s serious developer support behind this upgrade.

For the tech heads keeping score at home: The SSD is custom-built for gaming workloads, the split RAM configuration (16GB GDDR6 + 2GB DDR5) means better resource management, and that 390W power supply is ready for whatever developers throw at it.