The PlayStation 5 is powered by a custom system on a chip (SoC) designed in tandem by AMD and Sony] integrating a custom 7 nm AMD Zen 2 CPU with eight cores running at a variable frequency GHz. Zen 2 is a 64-bit x86-64 instruction set CPU microarchitecture. The integrated GPU is also a custom unit based on AMD's RDNA 2 graphics architecture. The GPU has 36 compute units running at a variable frequency GHz, making it capable of a peak theoretical performance of 10 teraflops. The GPU supports hardware-accelerated real-time ray tracing, a rendering technique that allows for realistic lighting and reflections. The console has 16 GB of GDDR6 SDRAM with a peak bandwidth of 448 GB/s, and integrates Bluetooth 5.1, and 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6).
Both the CPU and GPU are monitored by a special tech.