News about the new generation of PlayStation game console PS5 has been a rollercoaster this month. First, it was announced that the console will be released on June 4, and then it was immediately informed of the postponement. Before everyone could wake up from the regret, Sony recently The official announced again that the PS5 online release event is scheduled to be held at 4 am on June 12th, Beijing time. At the same time, some foreign media also brought more details about the hard drive of the machine.

According to foreign media, Sony has spent a lot of effort on the SSD hard drive this time, using PCIe 4.0 and 12-channel architecture, with speeds up to 5.5GB/s (compressed data speed up to 9GB/s), which is faster than the current desktop PCIe 4.0 hard drive. It's much more powerful, Sony claims it's 100 times more powerful than the PS4 console. In addition, PS5 will also support Karken compression technology, have 2 IO co-processors, support DMA master control, and have on-chip memory and a consistency engine, which can allow a super bandwidth of 22GB/s between the memory and SSD.

In other respects, according to the complete configuration information previously announced by Sony, the new Sony PS5 game console will be equipped with AMD’s customized 8-core Zen 2 CPU 3.5GHz (supports frequency conversion). The graphics card is an AMD-customized GPU based on the RDNA2 architecture, with a maximum frequency of 2.23GHz and support of 10.28 trillion floating-point operations per second. Equipped with 16GB GDDR6 memory and an 825GB customized solid-state drive, it is equipped with a single-disc 100GB 4K UHD Blu-ray drive, supports 120Hz/8K output, 3D sound effects, etc., and is directly backward compatible with PS4 games. In addition, the machine will be equipped with a newly designed DualSense handle.

It is reported that the new PS5 online launch event is scheduled to be held at 4 a.m. Beijing time on June 12. The official said, "I hope to witness this historic and important moment with you." We will wait and see for more details.