Sony just revealed its PS5 console: Here's what we know so far about it..

Now that we've seen the console, at last, we finally know about PS5 specs that will sit inside. And the PS5 design is a genuine looker - Sony's next-gen console is a unique, curvy white tower that's different from anything they've done before.

At the end of this year, we'll be able to choose between the standard PS5 with a Blu-ray disc-drive and the PS5 Digital Edition, a digital-only alternative.

No matter which one you choose, it's baffling to think about how Sony fit so much top-tier tech into this fairly small dungeon. 

The PS5 specs are headlined by eight Zen-2 processing cores, just over 10 teraflops of graphical wizardry, and 16GB of GDDR6 RAM. Don't forget about the brand-new PS5 SSD, either. It's a custom, 825GB piece of hardware with a ludicrous speed that'll drastically reduce loading times. That's what will make the complexity we saw from the Unreal Engine 5 tech demo possible, and it's matched only by the Xbox Series X specs.

Combine that with the new PS5 controller - otherwise known as the DualSense - and you have a very attractive proposition on your hands. 

Fortunately, we won't be waiting long to try it out. Although we don't have the PS5 price yet, we know for sure that it's got a 'Holiday 2020' release date. 

If we can get hold of a copy, anyway. In a news post from Bloomberg in April, there were rumors of Sony having reduced PS5 stock, to begin with (particularly compared to the PS4's launch), so we'll just have to be slightly lucky as well as determined to get those specs in our living rooms. The reduction is of course due to the impact of COVID-19, but it's not yet clear how deep the impact is and whether it'll also spread to the Xbox Series X. Similar to Series X, the PS5 will have eight Zen 2 cores working at 3.5GHz. This frequency is more than double the Jaguar cores that the PS4 has, and it looks like the CPU has been customized by AMD to match Sony's lofty ambitions. A formidable start. 

Next, we have a graphics card. This is a custom RDNA 2 card from AMD - the RDNA 2 being the newest architecture going - and it's output stand at a hefty 10.3 TeraFLOPs, running at 2.23GHz. 

When GPU meets CPU inside the PS5, we can now see that this will be a machine powerful enough for excellent ray-tracing support and rendering - something confirmed by Cerny in the presentation. Team these headline hardware acts with 16GB of DDR6 memory and a custom-designed 825GB NVMe SSD and we have a machine that'll run a top PC close on performance - on a raw level. Sprinkle in a 4K UHD Blu-ray optical drive (finally) and a spare NVMe slot, compatibility with external HDD storage, and the PS5 are shaping up very nicely.