PS5 Pro’s PSSR PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution faces growing pains in specific games [Video]

PlayStation’s new image-upscaling AI tech isn’t without its flaws and limitations, and some games actually end up looking worse having utilized it.

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The $700 PlayStation 5 Pro owes its high-end performance to two main upgrades: The new beefed-up GPU, and PlayStation Spectral Resolution Scaling, or PSSR. So what is PSSR? It’s basically Sony’s own proprietary version of NVIDIA’s DLSS AI-driven upscaling technology. Sony worked with AMD to engineer custom machine learning hardware onto the PS5 Pro’s SoC, and has trained PSSR’s AI on its first-party games.

“And finally, we added custom hardware for machine learning, and an AI library called PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution. PSSR analyzes the game’s images pixel by pixel, and can add an extraordinary amount of detail which boosts the effect of resolution for the games,” PS5 Pro architect Mark Cerny said in the console’s technical reveal showcase.

The real-world results of PSSR can be mixed. Sony’s own titles can benefit tremendously …