PS5 specs officially detailed by Sony, features 10.28 teraflops and a 3.5Ghz CPU

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PlayStation first began talking about the PlayStation 5 in April 2019.
Today, lead architect Mark Cerny shared new details in a deep dive into the system's specs.
The PlayStation 5 features 10.28 teraflops, with 8 CPU cores at 3.5 GHz.
There's also an 825GB SSD.

As PlayStation announced yesterday, we've just gotten a look at the PlayStation 5 (PS5) technical specs in a deep dive by Mark Cerny, the lead architect of the PS4 and PS5. This console features 10.28 teraflops of graphics power, alongside an 825GB SSD and an 8-core CPU clocked at 3.5ghz. Here's the full specs, courtesy of Digital Foundry.

Category	PlayStation 5
Processor	8 Zen 2 cores at 3.5ghz
Graphics	10.82 TFLOPs
Die Size	Unknown
Memory	16GB GDDR6
Memory Bandwidth	448 GB/s
Internal Storage	Custom 825GB SSD
I/O Throughput	5.5GB/s
Expandable Storage	NVMe SSD slot
External Storage	External HDD support
Optical Drive	4K UHD Blu-Ray Drive
Performance Target	Unknown
Color	Unknown
Size	Unknown
Stated release date	Holiday 2020
Price	Unknown

We'd known some of these things in the past, such as the inclusion of a custom SSD, alongside Navi and Zen 2 architecture from AMD. While it might seem like a reaction to the Xbox Series X specs being revealed recently, PlayStation has explained on Twitter that this was originally meant to be a talk held at GDC.

As of right now, the PS5 is still scheduled to release sometime in Holiday 2020.

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