A very long Power Point presentation seems to have leaked all over the internet, detailing the PlayStation 4 Neo and how it’ll work. It’s worth noting that though the document appears to be legitimate, it also seems to be a few months old – predating Sony Computer Entertainment’s name change to Sony Interactive Entertainment.
It seems to be the very same document that landed in the hands of Giantbomb and Eurogamer in April this year – so in truth there’s really very little new information beyond what we saw in reports around then.
The document confirms that the PlayStation Neo as it stood then used the same “Jaguar” cores as the original PlayStation 4, clocked 1.3x higher at 2.1GHz. The GPU? Gets a 2.3x boost, offering 36 GCN compute units clocked at 911MHz.There’s no real change to the amount of memory the PlayStation 4 Neo will have, though memory throughput will be at 218 gigabits per second, compared to the current PS4’s 174 gigabits per second. All together the system promises just under 4.2 Teraflops of computing power.
In handy table format:
Base PS4 | PS4K Neo | Boost | |
---|---|---|---|
CPU | Eight Jaguar cores clocked at 1.6GHz | Eight Jaguar cores clocked at 2.1GHz | 1.3x |
GPU | 18 Radeon GCN compute units at 800MHz | 36 ‘improved’ GCN compute units at 911MHz | 2.3x FLOPs |
Memory | 8GB GDDR5 at 176GB/s | 8GB GDDR5 at 218GB/s | 24% more bandwidth, 512MB more useable memory |
Future PlayStation 4 games would be required to support both the base and Neo versions of the PlayStation 4, with developers opting to patch old games to support the Neo system at their discretion. The Neo would allow for more raw horsepower, giving games better visual fidelity, faster framerates and higher resolutions – but not much else. It seems designed to give 4K TV owners something worth having, and the document makes no mention of PlayStation VR whatsoever.
Microsoft has promised that it’s Scorpio – coming a year later than PlayStation 4 Neo – will deliver 6 Teraflops of horsepower, making it significantly more powerful than Sony’s on mid-generation refresh. Since E3, it’s been rumoured that Sony opted to not show its Neo after Microsoft revealed its more powerful new console, showing us more of Days Gone instead. That’s nonsense though, as Andrew House said days before E3 that Neo would be a no show.
The document suggests that the PS4 Neo would be out towards the end of this year, which is far too late to make any hardware changes to match the Microsoft’s new machine.
Last Updated: July 15, 2016
Ottokie
July 15, 2016 at 08:35
Employee – “How do we get people more excited for announcements?”
Boss – “Lets “leak” information so people think they are reading a secret that no one was supposed to know”
Employee – “It’s brilliant brilliant BRILLIANT!
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Admiral Chief - Check
July 15, 2016 at 08:43
Slap in an SSD
Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
July 15, 2016 at 08:55
The neo one doesn’t seem that much better than the old one
Admiral Chief - Check
July 15, 2016 at 08:59
Indeed, still seems, limited
😛
Original Heretic
July 15, 2016 at 09:05
It’s an old document, there could have been changes since then.
Pieter Kruger
July 15, 2016 at 09:09
Maybe the name?
Original Heretic
July 15, 2016 at 09:14
What’s in a name? A turd by any other would smell as foul.
Like this mid-generation console upgrade. FOUL!! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9415e875216d65470a0097d0ba0775be169eec47a68ccda4ee321dd3c33bc375.jpg
Pieter Kruger
July 15, 2016 at 10:06
The name is the only thing they can still change, as the article states it’s a bit too late for spec changes. These console upgrades are necessary to keep up with VR & 4K gaming.
Fox1 - Retro
July 15, 2016 at 10:30
4k will only be a hit if it’s proper 4k at 60fps.
Viper_ZA
July 15, 2016 at 12:21
Best to look elsewhere then, the Neo is definitely not going to produce the goods xD
Dane
July 15, 2016 at 14:23
Yeah I think this one is still aiming for 60fps at 1080p. 😛
The Order of the Banana
July 15, 2016 at 15:14
Ugh GiantBomb… they’re like the less retarded version of Polygon and Kaktaku, and with 2% more balls than Neogaf, which basically means… zero balls.