Mark Cerny's team also wants the PlayStation 5 sound experience to be the most immersive and realistic in Sony's history.
After knowing all the news and features of the PS5 architecture, it is time to delve into one of the aspects that most caught the attention of this powerful machine: 3D sound. Regardless of its power and speed, with that AMD Ryzen Zen2 8-core CPU, a 10.28 TFLOps GPU, 16 GB of RAM and a surprisingly high-speed SSD, we have the so-called Tempest Engine.
Tempest Engine, or how to make sound next gen too
As explained in the presentation held on Wednesday, from Sony the team of Mark Cerny, architect of PlayStation 5, is taking into account more than ever the importance of sound for developers and users themselves when they are playing; and those are things where technology dictates judgment.
PS5 and the Tempest Engine
PS5 will make the console's audio unit use only a fraction of a Jaguar core to deliver 7.1 surround sound. That so-called Tempest Engine can be subjected to hundreds of sound sources in excellent quality.
Jim Ryan, President of SIE, at CES 2020, Las Vegas, Nevada | Business Insider | Muneyoshi Nishida
All in all, the Tempest Engine is a modified AMD GPU computing unit that has had caches removed to use only DMA transfers. In other words, for Digital Foundry it will be a revolution in console sound that will free sound enthusiasts from having to buy expensive external peripherals (see 7.1 sound bars, very high-end headphones …) to enjoy an experience to The height of the expected with the speakers of the console or with a standard headphones. The virtual surround will live its best moment in video games with PS5, they estimate from the English medium.
At FreeGameTips we have turned to PlayStation 5 coverage, which will launch worldwide in Christmas 2020. In our breakdown we find the differences between PS5 and Xbox Series X; the differences between PS5 and PS4; how the backward compatibility of PlayStation 5 with PS4 works, which has aspects to detail. Finally, in this report we tell you everything we know about PS5 and all the games confirmed for the console.
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