Both Sony and Microsoft hope to launch both consoles by Christmas 2020, although there may be limited output units.
AMD, a decisive company in the purpose of Sony and Microsoft to launch both PS5 and Xbox Series X at the end of this year 2020, has confirmed that it will increase the volume of production of the CPUs that will accompany these new generation systems from this second trimester.
The US firm presented the financial results for the first quarter of the year on Monday with really positive numbers: it has a 91% share of the CPU market, which can be almost called a monopoly. Both Ryzen and Radeon products contributed 80.4% of the total turnover reported by the company in this period, which amounts to $ 1.79 billion.
Lisa Su, one of the main managers of the company, has declared before the group of investors that the SoCs that will be present in the processors of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X already begin their production and will increase the expected pace to participate in the plans of these two great console producers this course; plans irretrievably intervened by the severity of the coronavirus, which has led to the temporary closure of factories, the lack of supply of parts or a constant dance of prices in the production of some elemental components.
"We expect that revenues from semi-custom (custom processors) will increase during the second quarter and have a greater weight during the second half of the year, as we increase production to support the launch of the PlayStation 5 consoles and Xbox Series X this Christmas, "he says.
PS5 | Five main features highlighted by Sony at CES 2020.
AMD's commitment is total: it wants to guarantee the APUs (accelerated processing units) of the impending domestic machines that will start the next generation ahead of a launch in Christmas of 2020 according to the expectations of the two companies.
Late 2020, PS5 and Xbox Series X target release date
It should be remembered that PS5 will have a 8-core Zen 2 CPU at 3.5GHz, while Xbox Series X will do the same with a custom 8-core Zen 2 brain at 3.8 GHz; in both cases with variable frequency. Regarding GPU, the Japanese console will have 10.28 TFLOPs, 36 CUs at 2.23GHz (variable frequency); while what we previously knew as Project Scarlett will have 12 TFLOPS, 52 CUs at 1,825 GHz RDNA 2.
In this report we tell you everything we know about PS5 and all the games. Xbox Series X will also launch worldwide in Christmas 2020. You can learn everything we know about the console here.
