for a while now one of the major selling points of going with a PC gaming setup
instead of buying a console has been support for running games at a higher
resolution with 4K being the latest woman in the red dress but no more
console gamers are finally getting their first taste of the 4K experience with
the Xbox One S a console that upscales
1080p games to 4K but what if you want
your console to natively render games in 4k like a PC Sony advertises Dynamic 4K
gaming and 4K entertainment asterisk and
Native 4k on Pro but what does that little star mean let's find
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in the video description like the Xbox One S the PS4 Pro isn't
part of a new generation of consoles as it largely resembles the base model of
the PlayStation 4 with only a few key differences aside from just being larger
and packing an extra USB port most notably the GPU or graphics processor
has been seriously overhauled with 36 radon compute units twice as many as the
original along with a 111 MHz increase
on the graphics clock combine that with a 500 MHz increase on the CPU and 24%
greater memory bandwidth Sony has certainly given themselves some room to
play with when it comes to increasing performance there's also an HDMI 2.0
Port as opposed to the HDMI 1.0 port on
the base model so it's pretty clear Sony is targeting users with 4K displays and
the addition of HDMI 2.0 isn't just a gimmick as the PS4 Pro does feature some
titles that will run at 4K 60 frames per second mind you these are either older
or less graphically demanding games the HDMI 2.0 Port also supports High dynamic
range with the hdr10 standard so even if
not everything runs at 60fps you'll get richer colors and more accurate black
levels for better detailing if you have a compatible TV and you're playing a
supported game or watching supported streaming video content but how does it
work well older games like Skyrim will just native render at 4K they don't need
to do anything else but many newer titles will use techniques like Dynamic
scaling where frames are rendered at some resolution between full HD and 4K
even depending on the scene within the single game then they're upscaled to
well 4K then there's what's called checkerboard rendering which only
renders half the pixels on a 4K display
the way checkerboarding works is that it renders pixels in a diagonal pattern
instead of leaving out entire vertical lines this makes it easier at least in
theory for the system to guess at the missing pixels resulting in sharper
images and better anti-aliasing than traditional upscaling but does it really
what's the best way to find out we initially thought about doing a more
traditional video with screen captures but with YouTube video compression being
what it is and us not even having a compatible HDMI 2.0 capture card anyway
which is important as the PS4 refuses to push even a 4K at 30 HZ signal over an
HDMI 1.4 connection we decided to do something a bit different and more real
world remember the Pepsi Challenge from the 1990s now I'm going to pick this up
and tell me which one you chose Pepsi well instead of doing a blind
taste test between Pepsi and Coke we set up three identical monitors side by side
and let some of our team members tell us which system they preferred a PS4 Pro
running at 4K a bass PS4 running at
1080P and a PC running at 4K with an
rx480 which we chose because it can handle 4K at reasonable settings and
frame rates and a value-minded 4K gamer
might be able to afford it with the money he or she saved on a PlayStation
Network subscription Colton Linus and Tyler were our guinea pigs in the PS4
Pro challenge in which they played rise of the Tomb Raider and Skyrim on each of
the three systems recording their thoughts in between we chose these games
due to their different rendering methods rise of the Tomb Raider uses
checkerboard rendering to accomplish 4K upscaling while Skyrim runs 4K natively
so what did our participants prefer well let's find out all right so I think a is
the PlayStation 4 what's B I think B is
the PC okay and I think C is the PS4 Pro
okay you'd be correct thank you I thought the PlayStation 4 One like in
comparison to PC was like terrible just terrible I was like okay wow yes I
I did get my guesses right like Colton said it was a lot harder to tell in Tomb
Raider it's very well optimized game so
frame rate dips were much less noticeable PS4 Pro and PS4 texture
quality wise looked very similar to me I couldn't really tell a difference it was
mostly in the sharpness of the image that I could tell the difference between
the two Skyrim on the other hand the PlayStation 4 is a dog in Skyrim there's
obvious frame rate dips when you Pan the camera around PS4 was probably dipping
down to like 22 frames per second when I was panning the camera around PS4 Pro
held steady at 30 like I could really tell that that cinematic jutter was
consistent at the very least uh but the PC was obviously running at 60 to 90
frames per second with really low frame times you actually got um your guessing
100% wrong in Tomb Raider I thought for sure that a was the PS Pro mm that uh B
was the PC and that c was the PlayStation okay so you got the two
versions of PlayStation mixed up oh what about on Skyrim and then on Skyrim it
was really hard I could still I was still pretty confident that c was the
PlayStation but it was hard for me to tell between a and b when I was when I
was playing Tomb Raider on this I kind of felt like okay like this is this one
doesn't have as great graphics as the other ones but it's still it was still a
good gaming experience I feel like I could sit down and play it and not be really pulled out of it whereas when I
played Skyrim on on C I kind of like if I had sat down to just play that I
probably would have felt upset at the graphics so it looks like our results
depended a fair bit on what game was being played for a closer look here are
the 4K screenshots from the PS4 Pro as well as our PC running rise of the Tomb
Raider at high and very high presets texture quality between the PS4 Pro and
the PC on high is quite similar though
the PC does a better job with foliage Shadows water effects and color while
very high far outstrips both with with much more articulated textures and
shadows but what if you're like me and you don't own a 4K TV well in this case
the PS4 is definitely a tougher sell but
that doesn't mean that Sony totally forgot about Gamers who are rocking a
mere 1080p display a number of PS4
titles are super sampled on the pro this means that they're rendered at a higher
resolution like 4K and then scaled down to fit a 1080p screen one such game is
the aformentioned Skyrim and the PS 4 Pro super sampling makes a big
difference here both of these screenshots are 1080p but you can see
the big difference in texture detail on the PS4 Pro versus the base model in
this scene with the ground the wooden steps and planks the tree branch in the
top left and the grass roof all looking
much nicer on the PS4 Pro but
unfortunately these games don't support the PS4 Pro's much B HED High dynamic
range or HDR capabilities which is supposed to give Gamers more accurate
colors and more detail in bright and dark areas of the screen so we connected
our PS4 Pro to Linus's LG signature OLED
4K TV with full hdr10 support which you
can learn more about in our review right up here and fired up DSX mankind divided
one of a handful of PS4 titles with HDR
support unfortunately it's not really possible to screen capture HDR content
properly and directly but we were able to snap these shots from the Dubai level
this room is quite dark without HDR but with it turned on you can definitely see
more detail in the darkest parts of the image such as in the sand the equipment
in the lower left and the far wall on the right side while the image quality
isn't at the same level you could get on a PC HDR definitely makes the scene pop
more and speaking of popping should you be popping the PS4 Pro into your living
room setup this holiday season well at $400 it's definitely a little
more than a lot of folks are used to paying for a new console these days it's
$100 more than Microsoft's midcycle refresh of the Xbox One S and that's
without 4K Blu-ray support a perplexing and frustrating Omission but to the
Discerning Eye it gets us closer to PC quality 4K than has ever been possible
on a console before and that's really cool the rumors of its melting death
seem to have been great exaggerated and while the price is higher it's still a
pretty solid value if you have a PS4 I probably
wouldn't upgrade if you have a 4K TV and
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