# Is Sony Developing a Dual-GPU PS5 Pro? 

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According to [a Sony patent](https://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2020/0242723.html) spotted by T3, the console maker [may be working on a new PlayStation 5 with two graphics card](https://collider.com/ps5-pro-details/). From the report:

_The patent describes a “scalable game console” where “a second GPU [is] communicatively coupled to the first GPU” and that the system is for “home console and cloud gaming” usage. To us here at T3 that suggests a next-gen PlayStation console, most likely a new PS5 Pro flagship, supercharged with two graphics cards instead of just one. These would both come in the APU (accelerated processing unit) format that the PlayStation 5’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) do, with two custom made AMD APUs working together to deliver enhanced gaming performance and cloud streaming._

 

The official Sony patent notes that, “plural SoCs may be used to provide a ‘high-end’ version of the console with greater processing and storage capability,” while “the ‘high end’ system can also contain more memory such as random-access memory (RAM) and other features and may also be used for a cloud-optimized version using the same game console chip with more performance.” And, with the PlayStation 5 console only marginally weaker on paper than the Xbox Series X (the PS5 delivers 10.28 teraflops compared to the Xbox Series X’s 12 teraflops), a new PS5 Pro console that comes with two APUs rather than one, improving local gaming performance as well as cloud gaming, would be no doubt the Xbox Series X as king of the next-gen consoles death blow.

_The cloud gaming part of the patent is particularly interesting, too, as it seems to suggest that this technology could not just find itself in a new flagship PS5 Pro console, but also in more streamlined cloud-based hardware, too. An upgraded PS5 Digital Edition seems a smart bet, as too the much-rumored PSP 5G. […] Will we see a PS5 Pro anytime soon? Here at T3 we think absolutely not – we imagine we’ll get at least two straight years of PS5 before we see anything at all. As for a cloud-based next-gen PSP 5G, though…_