Overview

• The PS6 is rumored to feature an AMD Orion APU with eight Zen 6 cores, 40–48 RDNA 5 compute units clocked over 3 GHz, GDDR7 memory and a 160 W thermal budget for roughly triple the PS5’s rasterization performance
• Sources report Sony aims to match or undercut the PS5 digital-edition price, targeting around $499 for the next-gen console’s entry model
• Production is expected to begin in mid-2027, setting up a launch window in late 2027 or early 2028
• Both the console and its Canis handheld are said to support full backward compatibility with PS5 and PS4 game libraries
• Project Canis is described as a 3 nm monolithic AMD handheld APU with four Zen 6c cores, 12–20 RDNA 5 compute units at up to 2.2 GHz, a 15 W thermal budget and roughly half the PS5’s rasterization power