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PlayStation 5 Pro review: A superpowered $700 console for gamers who won't buy a PC


The PlayStation 5 Pro is the most powerful console ever made, but you’ll pay dearly for its performance. Thanks to a faster GPU, it finally delivers 4K and 60 fps performance for PlayStation gamers, with a dash of new ray tracing features.

After all, those rigs typically run well over $1,000 for similar graphics performance, and they also involve all the complexity of Windows PCs, like driver issues, OS instability and juggling multiple game storefronts. But, as if to constantly rub compromise in our face, there's also a new Fidelity Pro mode that once again brings the frame rate down to 30 fps to make room for new graphical features, including ray-traced ambient occlusion, key light shadows, and enhanced reflections and interiors. There are already a handful of PS5 Pro titles that offer 60 fps and ray tracing at once, including Spider-Man 2, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and EA Sports F1 24, and this is an excellent sign for the future, considering it’s early days and developers are still testing the limits of Sony’s new hardware.

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