Portable PS5? *spawn*

[RDGoodla]

Strix Point reveals and has ZEN5 or 5C, RDNA 3 GPU and next-gen NPU. Again it uses 4nm process.

Sony may not want to spend too much on a handheld console so it is likely Sony uses a variant of Stirx Point.

Generally Sony tends to use the same number of cores for last-gen games . 8 cores CPU and 18 cores GPU are needed. 8 cores Zen 5C is power efficient and more than enough to emulate 8 cores Jaguar. 18 cores RDNA 3.5
at 800 MHz is enough for 1.8 TFs.

 

[damiank94]

Pro aside, do you think it's possible to hit 20w apu with zen 2 4/8 at 1.6 GHz and 18cu rdna2 at 800 MHz for hypothetical PS4 portable?

 

[Charlietus]

Pro aside, do you think it's possible to hit 20w apu with zen 2 4/8 at 1.6 GHz and 18cu rdna2 at 800 MHz for hypothetical PS4 portable?

Depends on the process node. 7nm? No. Maybe on 2-3nm.

Anyways, the "PS4 portable" rumours have always been improbable. They aren't making a portable that plays just PS4 games locally in 2027-2028.
They want users to buy new games, not 10 years old games.

If a portable comes out together with the ps6, it's going to be compatible with ps6 games (with developers making downgraded versions of ps6 games coming out the same day), it would get patches for PS5 only games and be retrocompatible with PS4.

Developers are going to be supporting the switch 2 in droves, and the deck 2-3 is going to run most of those games. Downgraded versions are going to be made regardless.

 

[Seanspeed]

Pro aside, do you think it's possible to hit 20w apu with zen 2 4/8 at 1.6 GHz and 18cu rdna2 at 800 MHz for hypothetical PS4 portable?

All the specs are definitely achievable, including the trickier part of getting 176GB/s of bandwidth and a sufficiently fast storage solution. The real trick though, would be doing all this in a cheap APU and affordable overall product. Cuz nobody is gonna want to spend $400+ on a portable, digital-only PS4 in the year 2025.

Something like the basic Steam Deck makes a lot more sense and would be hard competition, even if it lacks the raw GPU horsepower and bandwidth of PS4 for full 1080p play in a lot of these games. You still get access to like 98% of PS4's library, including a large chunk of the 1st party titles. But you also get so much more. Main downside would be that you couldn't just transfer over any existing PS4 digital library, so you'd have to buy games again. But most all PS4 era titles are pretty cheap these days...