Sony wants 60 Frames Per Second games, but it is happy to settle for less
The PS5 Pro Enhanced Label: A Way for Sony to Provide More System Memory on the PS4 and 5 Pros with Ultra-Boosting CPU Frequency
Developers will get more access to the system memory. The additional system memory on the PS5 Pro will give games a bigger pool of space in comparison to the allocated space on the base PS5.
The PS5 Pro has a new high CPU Frequency mode which has less power allocated to the graphics card. The GPU is downclocked by around 1.5 percent in this mode, which results in “roughly 1 percent lower performance,” according to Sony.
This new architecture supports Sony’s custom PSSR upscaling solution, which is designed to replace a game’s existing temporal anti-aliasing or upsampling implementation. Sony said that the inputs were similar to FSR and that full HDR support was included. This support requires around 250MB of memory, which is why the memory allocations on the PS5 Pro should help here. Sony wants to support resolutions up to 8k in the future, as well as improving the latency for 4K up to 2ms.
The PS5 Pro ‘Enhanced’ label is still available for a variety of games that feature 30 frames per second. If developers want to increase the target resolution for PS5 Pro games that run at a fixed resolution on PS 5, they can do so.
Sony does warn developers that many unpatched games won’t show improvements in this ultra-boost mode, though. Games that run at a fixed resolution and graphical settings for fixed rendering resolutions won’t show improvements. Even if developers remain on older versions of Sony’s SDK, they can still utilize PSSR to upscale titles and get access to the additional system memory that Sony is offering game developers.
The requirements for the PS5 Pro Enhanced label seem largely similar to what Sony did with the PS4 Pro, and there’s some clear flexibility here so developers can pick what they want to improve. If a game qualifies for the Enhanced label, it can be displayed on disc packaging and on the PS Store pages.
