PlayStation 6 portable rumored as more powerful than Xbox Series S, less powerful than PS5

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Sony's upcoming PlayStation 6 portable is expected to be more powerful than an Xbox Series S, but less powerful than a standard PlayStation 5 console, and that's because of lower memory bandwidth in the PS6 portable according to new rumors.

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In some new comments regarding the portable PlayStation 6, known leaker "Kepler_L2" posted on the NeoGAF forums saying that PS6 portable won't be as powerful as the current base-level PS5 system, and that it will run regular PS5 games but not at the same resolution and frame rate as the PS5 due to lower memory bandwidth (which is understandable, given it's a portable handheld).

The leaker said that the portable PlayStation 6 SoC will be a different chip than the one inside of the regular PS6 console, but it has been designed to run at really low voltages. We are looking at a lot less than 40 Compute Units, and with performance coming in slower than the standard PS5 -- which has 36 CUs -- we should expect 28-32 CUs inside of the PS6 portable.

The leaker said: "It can definitely run PS5 games, just not at the same resolution/FPS, mainly due to lower memory bandwidth".

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The SoC inside of the PS6 portable is expected to take out a few months after the regular PlayStation 6 SoC, so we should be expecting a longer wait for more information. AMD is making the chips for both the PS6 and PS6 portable, using its next-gen UDNA GPU architecture, and most likely a Zen 5-based CPU.