According to the famous leaker Kepler L2, the overall design of the central processor of Sony's next console is already complete and in the validation phase, a step intended to verify the logical behavior of the chip before its actual engraving. The first prototypes in version (stepping) A0 of the SoC of the PlayStation 6 should therefore normally see the light of day by the end of the year; they will allow to track down bugs and problems directly on the manufactured chips, so that engineers can correct them.
The road is still long for Sony before the launch of a PS6
It will then take many months and probably several successive iterations of prototypes for the final version of the SoC of Sony's future console to be definitively ready and for mass production to be launched, which places a hypothetical launch of the Playstation 6 in the year 2027, at best. Seven years would then separate the launch of the PS6 from that of the PS5, a period similar to that between the releases of the PlayStation 5 and PS4.
While it is now known that the processor in question will be of AMD design, the exact architecture of the console's SoC is still at the supposition stage. We can still strongly expect to find a Zen 5 architecture on the CPU side, and a derivative of the UDNA architecture (GFX13) of the new Radeon 9060/9070 (XT) on the GPU side. Accompanied by GDDR7 memory and engraved in 3 nm, the PS6 processor could also include 3D V-Cache memory.
With such characteristics, the PlayStation 6 would display performances far superior to those of a PS5 Pro. But as always, this overbidding of power will not guarantee the commercial success of the PS6: it is original and innovative games that make a console legendary.
Source : Kepler L2 / NeoGAF
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