Between monster myths and bare facts
Hardly any other topic is currently causing as much speculation in the gaming world as the upcoming PlayStation 6. Its release is still a long way off, but leaks and alleged revelations about its technical power are already coming thick and fast. At the center of the heated discussion is the claim that Sony’s console can compete with NVIDIA’s graphics card giant, the RTX 5090.
The well-known industry insider “Moore’s Law Is Dead” has now made a significant correction in a recent YouTube video. While he acknowledges Sony’s great progress in ray tracing, he clarifies: “We were talking about ray tracing, not overall performance. In terms of rasterization, Orion’s SOC is significantly weaker than an RTX 5090.” In doing so, he dispels one of the biggest myths surrounding the PS6 – and puts expectations on a realistic footing.
The PlayStation 6 is expected to feature AMD’s custom “Orion” chip, combined with an RDNA 5 graphics unit, a Zen 6 CPU, and up to 40 GB of GDDR7 memory. In numbers, that means around 40 teraflops, up to three times better rasterization, and ray tracing performance that could be up to twelve times that of the PS5.
60 FPS at 4K – and what gamers can really expect
Even if the PS6 isn’t a true “RTX 5090 monster,” the package sounds like a milestone in Sony’s console history. In Quality Mode, a stable 60 frames per second at 4K should be possible, while Performance Mode could even deliver 120 FPS at the same resolution.
Particularly exciting: with the use of FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4), the PS6 could actually come close to an RTX 5080 in selected ray tracing scenarios. Only in absolutely exceptional cases would a comparison with the 5090 be justified, according to the insider. However, this is unlikely to be a damper for gamers – after all, the main focus is on games running even more smoothly and with greater detail than ever before.
With these insights, the insider takes the wind out of the sails of exaggerated expectations, but at the same time, anticipation is growing for a console that promises impressive technology despite all the relativizations. The PlayStation 6 will thus likely become not just a marketing buzzword, but a real piece of the gaming future.