PS5 Pro thread

I see multiple journalists posting images of their pros that Sony have been dropping off so we should start to see lot more coverage of actual hands on in the coming days.

I'm nearly the end of my Red dead redemption 1 play through so I'll have to stick RDR2 on the pro.

I have dragon age and will upgrade zero dawn too. Will have to install all the Sony stuff. GT7, Spiderman, Rachet and Clank, the last of us 1&2. Just to see the improvements.

Ive a 2tb M.2 SSD ready to stick into it too so there's plenty of room.

I had hoped to see some PSVR2 improvements too but my bloody dog chewed the cable. And Don't don't sell replacements. So that's €500 down the drain.

Unboxing Video...

I have mine preordered for home delivery on Thursday

Have been on the fence alot since ordering over the price etc

Was anyone else feeling this way or just me? 😂

But gonna go ahead... gonna sell my launch PS5 to soften that blow 😅

Was able to snag a disc drive in Currys a few weeks back

Have an LGC1 so set up to get the full advantage so not like I need to change my TV or anything like that

Will need to move the 2tb SSD over to the pro aswell but as i've read it can just be moved over with no reformatting required

I hear you on the delivery, Im thinking of changing to to click and collect tbh 😂

Yeah apparently on the settings there is a boost option for PS4 games but how much of a difference it makes, time will tell

I'm not playing a whole pile right now, just started BLOPS6, Life is Strange double exposure & Helldivers but will prob get back to Star Wars Outlaws too to see if any improvement there, was struggling to get into that tbh

I think the big 1 for me that will showcase the Pro will be Assassins Creed Shadows, really looking forward to that 1

Ive already played Spiderman 2 / Horizon and have no interest in going back to them

But it's the 16.7TF of GPU compute performance that is new information. Sony has not actually given any kind of TFLOPs number for the PlayStation 5 Pro, but prior leaks have suggested around 33.5TF - a somewhat exaggerated number that arrived with AMD RDNA 3 architecture with its dual issue FP32 functionality. Sony's confirmation of 16.7TF suggests that the dual issue FP32 support is not in the PlayStation 5 Pro - not that this is too much of a big deal as it has very, very little impact on gaming performance.

Finally, the specifications confirm that the PS5 Pro has more memory than the base unit - an extra 2GB of DDR5. Leaks have previously suggested that the Pro has an extra 1.2GB of available RAM for game makers, so the likelihood is that system level memory requirements are shunted over to the new memory pool, leaving more of the faster memory for games to use.

When are ye expecting smyths charge cards / delivery?

I'm the same, cancelled my preorder for delivery going to collect Thurs 1st thing aswell 😬😂

Is anyone swapping their SSD over, I am just wondering can I just swap it out straight away out of the box or should I power on 1st...

I never had to install a disc drive before either, I hope its straight forward enough 😬

I think I looked it up a few weeks ago and it said you can just swap it over from one PS5 to the other. It won't format it because it's already been formatted by a PS5.

Yeah I have pretty much every game moved over to my 2TB M.2 so hopefully once the Pro comes I can just swap over rather than having to download games. Might just load up the Pro and get it set up first before installing the M.2 though, just so as not to confuse things.

I forgot about the 2tb ssd I have in my OG ps5 😩 Be pain to switch it .

Looking forward to getting mine brought the Blu-ray drive a few weeks back. I think you will need to use the plastics legs that come with the drive if your going to place it horizontal which I think I will with the pro. It's good you can stick the games on the M.2 and just transfer it across to the Pro as I was sure it would just format the drive for drm reasons.

I think I will power it on and make sure it works and download any updates and then power off and for the M.2 first power it on make sure it's working and then fit the Blu-Ray drive last.

Still waiting on my ready to pick up email. I presume it comes after closing today so you don't show up too early.

The one we've been waiting for Digital foundry.