PS5 Pro won’t use AI-powered Frame Generation at first: new games will benefit from PSSR [Video]

Sony’s upcoming PlayStation 5 Pro console won’t have any AI-powered frame generation technology because of a few reasons: one of those being timing.

In their recent podcast, Digital Foundry talked about the lack of any AI-powered frame generation technology on the PS5 Pro, and that it’s not there because of a lack of timing. Sony started working on the chip (co-developed by AMD, fabbed by TSMC) before NVIDIA’s kick-ass DLSS 3 Frame Generation technology was born.

Not just that, but machine learning hardware inside of the PS5 Pro was co-developed by AMD, and while it’s not amazing on its own — so Sony leads into the image quality enhancements of the machine learning hardware inside of the PS5 Pro.

If there’s a need for frame generation technology, the DF staffers talked about using AMD FSR 3 frame generation that will work hand-in-hand with PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution) technology in …