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Sony brings AI upscaling to the standard PS5, QSSR now supported on select titles. The PS5 is getting a taste of a well-known PS5 Pro feature. Sony has extended one of the PS5 Pro's defining features down to its standard hardware, giving players without the premium console a taste of AI-enhanced visuals. The technology arriving on base PlayStation 5 units is new and distinct from what the Pro model uses, but it marks a meaningful shift in how Sony is thinking about image quality across its entire console lineup. Sony brings AI upscaling to the standard PS5 models. Sony Interactive Entertainment announced Quick Spectral Super Resolution (a.k.a. QSSR) as a new performance tier of AI upscaling specifically designed to run on the standard PlayStation 5 console. The technology was developed internally under Project Amethyst, Sony's AI graphics collaboration with AMD, and it draws from the same research pipeline that produced the PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution system exclusive to the PS5 Pro. Daniel Craig, Principal Engineer at Sony Interactive Entertainment's Graphics R&D division, explained in the PlayStation Blog announcement that players and developers had been asking about this possibility since PSSR launched on the PS5 Pro. He noted that PSSR's computational demands made it impossible to run on the standard hardware until now, which is why Sony built QSSR from the ground up around two key technical decisions: a streamlined neural network architecture and a hand-tuned implementation that maximizes performance specifically on the base PS5's hardware. Say hello to the QSSR upscaling from Sony. QSSR works by using AI guidance to upscale rendered images with greater detail and stability than conventional upscaling methods. The approach analyzes what the game is rendering and intelligently fills in additional visual information during the upscaling process, producing a sharper and more temporally stable result than traditional techniques like checkerboard rendering or temporal anti-aliasing. Jasmin Patry, Lead Rendering Engineer at Sucker Punch Productions, described the technology's core strength in the PlayStation Blog announcement. "QSSR excels at resolving the fine details in our characters and environments and does so with a level of temporal stability that hasn't been possible on the PS5 console until now," Patry said, adding that Sucker Punch had long wished all PS5 players could experience the image quality PSSR brings to the Pro version. For players, QSSR will appear as an additional graphics option within supported games rather than a system-wide filter applied to everything. The technology is offered to developers as a library they can integrate into their titles, meaning game teams have to explicitly support and implement it before players can access it in a specific game. PSSR remains exclusive to PS5 Pro. Sony was direct in stating that PSSR, which launched on the PS5 Pro in late 2024 and received an upgrade in early 2026, remains the gold standard for AI upscaling and continues to be exclusive to the Pro hardware. QSSR is described as providing notable improvements to both image detail and image stability on the base console, but the full capabilities of PSSR on the Pro are not being replicated here. The distinction matters for players deciding between the two hardware options. PS5 Pro owners get access to PSSR, which Sony describes as the more powerful and computationally demanding implementation. Standard PS5 owners now get QSSR, which delivers real improvements over the existing conventional upscaling methods while fitting within the constraints of the base console's chip. The two technologies exist on the same family tree but are not interchangeable. Which games are supporting this? Two Sony first-party titles are launching with QSSR support simultaneously. "Marvel's Wolverine" and "Ghost of Yōtei" both received patches that add QSSR as an optional graphics setting on the standard PlayStation 5. Mike Fitzgerald, Head of Technology at Insomniac Games, said QSSR adds more pixel-level clarity and stability to the environments in "Marvel's Wolverine," bringing out extra detail across locations like the streets of Madripoor and the alleyways of Shinjuku. Fitzgerald also noted that QSSR brings a strong taste of the PS5 Pro experience to players on the base console, and said he is excited to see more games make use of it going forward. Sony confirmed in the announcement that QSSR will be made broadly available to all PlayStation developers, which suggests the library is not limited to first-party studios. The company said it looks forward to seeing more titles incorporate the technology in the future. Frequently asked questions. Standard PS5 difference with PS5 Pro. The standard PlayStation 5 and the PS5 Pro share the same fundamental console architecture but differ significantly in their hardware capabilities. The PS5 Pro launched in November 2024 at $699 with a substantially enhanced GPU that Sony described as offering around 45 percent faster GPU rendering performance compared to the original PS5. The Pro also includes dedicated AI hardware specifically designed to run PSSR, which is why that upscaling technology requires Pro hardware. The standard PS5 launched at $499 in 2020 and features a less powerful GPU without the dedicated AI processing Silicon that the Pro added. Both consoles run the same games and the same version of PlayStation software, but graphical options and resolution targets can differ depending on which hardware a player has. What Is the PSSR on the PS5 Pro? PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution is Sony's flagship AI upscaling technology developed for the PS5 Pro. It analyzes game images pixel by pixel using a trained neural network and reconstructs high quality upscaled output that retains more detail and stability than conventional methods like checkerboard rendering or temporal upscaling. PSSR launched alongside the PS5 Pro in 2024 and received a significant upgrade in February 2026 that Sony said improved image quality further. It has been adopted by a substantial number of PS5 Pro patched titles, including "Marvel's Spider-Man 2," "Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart," and many third-party releases. PSSR's results on the PS5 Pro are generally considered on par with or better than competing technologies like Nvidia's DLSS 4 and AMD's FSR in the implementations tested so far on Sony hardware. Are more games adding support? Sony confirmed that the QSSR library is being made available broadly to all PlayStation developers, which means more titles adding support is a stated goal rather than a distant possibility. However, each game studio must actively choose to integrate the library and build support for QSSR into a specific title's graphics options, which means not every existing game will automatically benefit. Developers need to do technical work to implement QSSR, test it across their game's various environments and lighting conditions, and ship a patch before players can access it. Sony has not published a confirmed list of upcoming titles that have committed to QSSR support beyond "Marvel's Wolverine" and "Ghost of Yōtei," though the company's language strongly implies more announcements are planned as other studios complete their implementations.

PS5 system software update 26.06-14.10.00 out now, brings more stability improvements. Sony Interactive Entertainment has released PS5 system software update 26.06-14.10.00 for users to download, although it's not a major update and only comes with a few improvements. * PlayStation Universe has made some security fixes to the system software. * PlayStation Universe has improved system software performance and stability. Last month, Sony released another PS5 system software update that included the Enhance PSSR Image Quality turned on as the default setting. To turn this setting off, you simply go to Setting > Screen and Video > Video Output > Enhance PSSR Image Quality. The PS5 originally launched in November 2020 during the middle of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, which resulted in major stock shortages that would go on to last more than 18 months. The console released in two versions - a disc-based model and a digital-only edition - with Sony later releasing a slim version of the PS5 alongside a more powerful edition known as PS5 Pro. The format holder has been making waves recently for its controversial decision to scrap production of physical game discs on PlayStation in January 2028. This has all but confirmed that the as-yet unannounced PS6 will not feature a disc drive as Sony moves to a digital-only future.