Sony Reportedly Has a PlayStation 5 Pro Ready to Battle Microsoft’s 12 TFLOPS Xbox Series X

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New rumors claim that Sony has not one, but two PlayStation 5 consoles planned for launch this year. The more powerful SKU – which will presumably be called the PS5 Pro – is said to be on equal footing with Microsoft’s Xbox Series X.



The word comes from NeoGAF’s VFXVeteran, an industry professional who’s been “vetted” by forum staff. He claims that the base PlayStation 5 will offer 9 teraflops (TFLOPS) of performance – 3 TFLOPS less than the Xbox Series X – but Sony will close that gap with a Pro model.



As Microsoft pointed out this week, a teraflop equals one trillion floating point operations per second. This...

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