About a week ago, Reuters told us that Sony was working on PS6 Currently in collaboration with AMDAccording to the report, Sony has reached an official agreement with AMD to be responsible for the hardware of the device, while the Taiwanese semiconductor company TSMC will provide the basic chip SOC (System On Chip) in the device. But the question is which architecture will this device take?
Today, a reliable source revealed some possible details about the PS6 and the hardware inside it. used in the PS6 and the new portable platform from PlayStation, which previous rumors told us was also in development. .
Now that the PS5 is in the second half of its life cycle, Sony may have started developing the next one, the PS6. Rumors around the next-gen console have already started to appear in the last few months, and this time we have a rumor from inside the Chinese hardware zhangzhonghao. forward Chippell ForumThe leaker provided some hypothetical thoughts on AMD’s future GPU architecture, claiming that the manufacturer will switch to UDNA architecture after RDNA 4. The PS6 GPU will likely use AMD’s UDNA architecture, but it has not been confirmed CPU architecture has yet to be confirmed, as Sony is still considering using a Zen 4 or Zen 5 processor Since the PS6 won’t be launched until 2027/2028, these processors may have become old It is likely that AMD will have released Zen 6 CPUs by then.
UDNA GPUs are rumored to make use of a GPU ALU design that will be similar to GCN, a decade-old AMD architecture that coincidentally was also used for the PS4’s GPU. The insider also said that the UDNA GPUs are expected to enter mass production in 2026, which is in line with the PS6’s expected release window of 2028. Finally,
The leaker also says that the PlayStation handheld will also use AMD chips, but did not provide additional information about this. AMD is currently preparing to release the Z2 Extreme chipset sometime in early 2025, which could give a glimpse of the kind of performance gamers can expect from this PlayStation console -new behavior. Will this device work with a Z2 Extreme processor or a similar processor, but made specifically for a Sony laptop?
