The next generation of consoles will arrive in December 2020 and promises are being made, at least, complicated to fulfill. Sony has started talking about content in 8K resolution. All users have thought that this referred to video, since there is no hardware on the market that allows you to play at that resolution. Well, Sony reaffirms that the PlayStation 5 will support 8K in games, not just video.
Note that this new platform will come with an AMD Zen2 architecture processor with an integrated Navi GPU. 4K @ 60FPS HDR gaming already seems complicated and almost impossible if we add Ray Tracing technology. Reaching 8K @ 60FPS seems very complicated to say the least, even if it is a closed and highly optimizable platform.
Sony confirms that the PlayStation 5 supports 8K in gaming
As early as October this year, the company started talking about 8K resolutions. This would be possible thanks to the Zen2 @ 7nm 8-core and 16-thread processors. According to the talk, the GPU to be integrated would be based on the RDNA2 architecture and would have support for Ray Tracing.
This same month of December, Sony would have shown a new line of CLEDIS panels for wall displays with 8K @ 120Hz resolution. During the presentation, apparently, a cinematic of a Gran Turismo was shown that has not been announced. Possibly the game was run on a development version of the PlayStation 5, although we have no data.
Remember that in August 2017, Kazunori Yamauchi, creator of Gran Turismo, already introduced 8K in GT Sport. Maybe I was developing an advanced rendering process for 8K textures for the future Sony console. Apparently in 2020 we will see the Gran Turismo 7.
We can speculate a lot about it, but 4K gaming at a high FPS rate for PC just arrived. The NVIDIA RTX 2080s allow moving games in 4K at a good FPS rate without Ray Tracing, with this active technology it goes to half. We find it quite unlikely that AMD manages to take such a beast leap, considering that the RX 5700 XT is designed for 1440p (2K).
Another factor that makes 8K irrelevant and stupid at the moment is that there are no user-level panels that support it. The few 8K TVs out there are astronomical prices and only a stupid would buy an 8K TV to play a handful of games.
Source: TT
