
The disc-equipped console, on the other hand, will gladly gobble up your PS5-compatible physical copies. Your disc-less console will be a digital-download central as you will not be able to use any physical copies of media on the PS5 Digital Edition.

That means any game you’d like to play on the Digital Edition must be obtained through internet-connected channels like the PlayStation Store. The most obvious difference? PS5 Digital Edition doesn't have a disc. While these console twins have many similarities, there are some crucial differences worth mentioning. The PS5 duo also boasts exciting next-gen features including instantaneous load speeds, 8K graphical capabilities and advanced 3D audio. PS5 Digital Edition (Image credit: Sony)īoth systems - PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition - sport an eight-core AMD Zen 2-based CPU clocked at 3.5GHz, a custom AMD RDNA 2 GPU with 10.28 teraflops and 36 compute units clocked at 2.23GHz, 16GB of RAM, and a custom 825GB SSD.


The PS5 Digital Edition and the disc model are almost “identical,” according to an interview with Sony’s Playstation CEO Jim Ryan. However, there are some important differences between the PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition that are worth noting, especially when it comes to design and whether or not a disc drive exists. PS5 Digital Edition Row 0 - Cell 0ġ0.3 TFLOPS, 36 CUs 2.33 GHz (variable frequency)ĥ.5 GB/s (Raw), up to 8-9GB/s (Compressed)
