AMD is basically powering PS5, providing the integrated, custom solution featuring both GPU and CPU which should deliver around 13TF of computational power.
PS5 is releasing in 2020, according to partner AMD.
AMD is powering PlayStation 5, providing the integrated, custom solution featuring both GPU and CPU which should deliver around 13TF of computational power, if rumors about the dev kits are to be believed.
While it has not mentioned explicitly PS5 nor Sony, during a call about the earnings with investors and analysts, president Dr. Lisa Su said that “semi-custom will return to a growth business for us in 2020 and beyond.”
Despite Su not willing to talk “about any specific customer,” these words seem a rather clear reference to Sony, that will help the company face the business that’s been “substantially” down in 2019 as for “semi-custom” stuff.
The fact that the business is raising in 2020 only means that Sony will be the one which will be provided new semi-custom technology for PlayStation 5, but also that Microsoft will do the same since it is being delivered similar solutions for Xbox Scarlett.
Sure enough, it’ll be a good year for the company in the never-ending competition with Nvidia, which is only working with Nintendo for the Switch as of now and not entering the proper console war with high powered technology after it ended the relationship with Sony on PS3.
Sony itself has made it clear that PS5 is not releasing anytime soon and that the reveal of the specs only happened because it is starting to deliver dev kits, so it’ll still need a bit of time to launch the platform properly, and that should be in 2020 as most analysts believe.
