After months of waiting and speculation, PlayStation have officially revealed new details about their upcoming next-generation console — detailing the capabilities of the PlayStation 5 hardware and showcasing several of its key hardware features for the future of games.

Announced in a video by lead system architect Mark Cerny, the full specs inside the PlayStation 5 have been revealed. You can find them below:

CPU: 8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.5GHz (variable frequency)
GPU: 10.28 TFLOPs, 36 CUs at 2.23GHz (variable frequency)
GPU Architecture: Custom RDNA 2
Memory/Interface: 16GB GDDR6/256-bit
Memory Bandwidth: 448GB/s
Internal Storage: Custom 825GB SSD
IO Throughput: 5.5GB/s (Raw), Typical 8-9GB/s (Compressed)
Expandable Storage: NVMe SSD Slot
External Storage: USB HDD Support
Optical Drive: 4K UHD Blu-ray Drive

You can watch the full video for yourself below:

PS5 lead system architect Mark Cerny provides a deep dive into PS5's system architecture and how it will shape the future of games.

One of the key areas Cerny iterated on was the custom SSD they have in place with the PS5, which is achieves instantaneous speeds that results in; faster loads, no load screens Ultra High-Speed Streaming, de-duplicate game data and no long patch installs.

A huge difference is when you compare the SSD in the PS5 to the standard HDD in a PS4, which had an bandwidth of 50-100 MB/s, while the target speed of the PS5 is 5GB/s at least. Addtionally it would take the PS4 roughly 20 seconds to load 1GB of data, while the PS5’s SSD will be to load in 2GBs of data in 0.27 seconds.

Cerny also touched on Backwards Compatibility in the console, re-confirming that PS5 will feature PS4 backwards compatibility with almost all of PS4’s Top 100 Most-Played games to be playable on PS5 from launch later this year.

Interestingly, while PlayStation 5 seems to be slightly weaker than the competition, the Xbox Series X, it also appears to be much faster based on the specs. The full Xbox Series X specs were revealed earlier this week, which you can find here.

What did you think of this PlayStation 5 event? Personally, it wasn’t the smartest choice to hold a developer-focused event prior to an official event for consumers, but with the cancellation of GDC (scheduled for this week), it forced Sony’s hand. Share your thoughts below!

PlayStation 5 Full Specs and New Details Revealed