RUMOR: PS6 Handheld Reportedly Renders At 540p And Nonetheless Practically Matches A PS5 Professional

In line with a leak from GameGPU that was picked up by Wccftech, the machine is codenamed Venture Canis and it’s operating a customized 3nm AMD chip with six Zen 6 cores (4 customary plus two low-power ones). Reminiscence is 24GB of LPDDR5X on a 192-bit bus, which is greater than a base PS5 has. Energy draw sits between 15W and 25W. For reference, a PS5 Professional pulls someplace round 215 to 240W.

The GPU is 16 RDNA 5 compute models, clocked at 1.2GHz in handheld mode for 4.91 TFLOPS, and 1.65GHz docked for six.75 TFLOPS. That sounds weak subsequent to the PS5 Professional’s 16.7 TFLOPS till you bear in mind PSSR is doing a complete lot of the work right here.

GameGPU claims PSSR 3.0 brings correct body era to PlayStation {hardware}, one thing Mark Cerny teased earlier this 12 months. Issue that in and the efficient numbers supposedly land at 10 to 11 TFLOPS handheld and round 14 TFLOPS docked. That’s above a base PS5, and genuinely near a PS5 Professional, from one thing operating on a 25W finances.

The catch is the decision. You’re apparently rendering internally at 540p and upscaling to a 1080p display screen, which is a giant ask. Whether or not that holds up in movement is solely all the way down to how good PSSR 3.0 truly is.

Kepler_L2, who has been dependable on {hardware} leaks previously, says Venture Canis is forward of the Xbox Collection S in rasterization and effectively forward in ray tracing and path tracing. Bear in mind the Collection S is a plugged-in console rated at round 4 TFLOPS. Kepler_L2 additionally claimed PSSR 3.0 will surpass Nvidia’s DLSS 4.5, and I’d take that one with a grain of salt, however the development right here is apparent sufficient.

Sony is reportedly concentrating on a late 2027 launch.

Both means, that is Sony’s first correct handheld because the Vita. The Portal was a streaming brick that wanted a console and a great connection. That is actual {hardware} with actual compute inside it. (Plus, the Portal kinda sucked)

What do you suppose? Is a 540p handheld that punches close to a PS5 Professional price your cash, or is that inner decision a dealbreaker? Tell us within the feedback!