PLAY STATION NEO

The All New Playstation : Neo

WHAT NEW?

With each of the 'big three' looking to upgrade its hardware, and Nintendo pushing the Nintendo NX back to 2017, Sony has decided to bring out a ‘.5’ iteration on the PlayStation 4 this year.

Sony recently confirmed the existence of the PS4K, but it will not be shown at E3 2016, like many had previously thought.

The new console will be capable of upscaling current PS4 titles to 4K, as well supporting games with improved visual fidelity, a huge benefit for the upcoming Playstation VR headset.

According to a new report from Giant Bomb, the PS4.5's official codename is ‘Neo’, and the same report also details more about the potential performance of the new console.

The Neo will feature a superior clock speed to the PS4 (2.1 GHz vs 1.6 Ghz), as well as an improved GPU.

Specifically, the current PS4 features an AMD GCN with 18 compute units running at 800MHz, but the PS4 Neo is expected to have 36 compute units running at a faster 911MHz clock speed. So that's double the potential processing units and at a higher clock speed, which explains previous claims that the PS4.5 would be twice as powerful as the PS4.

That's not all. While the Neo will still ship with 8GB of GDDR5 memory, it be faster – 218GB/s vs 176GB/s, just shy of 24% faster than the PS4's memory.

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