Leaked New PS4 Model 'Neo': Everything You Need To Know

3. The Hardware Specs

I'm not au faitwith the latest processor speeds and other details more commonly associated with PC gaming, but I suppose that's all about to change, isn't it?

Anyway, here's the tech breakdown on a pure specifications level of the differences between the retail PS4, and the upcoming NEO.

PS4 Standard:

CPU - 8 Jaguar Cores at 1.6 GHzGPU - AMD GCN, 18 CUs at 800 MHzMemory - 8 GB GDDR5, 176 GB/s

NEO:

CPU - 8 Jaguar Cores at 2.1 GHz GPU - Improved AMD GCN, 36 CUs at 911 MHzMemory - 8 GB GDDR5, 218 GB/s

Basically, what this boils down to is allowing the system to run even more graphically-intense games far smoother.

So remember how the likes of Just Cause 3 would crumble under the weight of a thousand things exploding at once? That would become a thing of the past. Probably.