YouTuber Gets Native PS3 Emulation Running on PS5 Hardware

Tech YouTuber Manages to Play PS3 Games Successfully PlayStation 5 Hardware. The prospect of running PS3 games on PS5 has been widely debated for many years. But this latest test proves that current-gen consoles are just as capable on a technical level.

That being said, the PS5 is backwards compatible with PS4 and a growing list of PS1, PS2, and PSP classics. Through the PS Plus Premium subscription service, this has raised the request for official PS3 emulation on PS5, which has long been a point of contention. PS3 games can only be played via cloud streaming on PS5, and many tech experts think that bringing the PS3's highly complex CELL architecture in line with the PS5's x86 architecture will require a significant amount of work. This raises questions about Sony's financial viability.

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However, third-party PS3 emulators such as RPCS3 have made huge strides on PC. And it's been proven that the console's CELL architecture can be adapted to x86. Now YouTuber Lowest Logan's technology has taken it one step further, demonstrating that The PS5's hardware can run PS3 games.– In a recent YouTube video, Lowest Logan shows off AMD BC-250 mining cards, which feature the same silicon as the PS5 and 16GB of GDDR6 RAM. These cards were recycled from a defective PS5 chip. Therefore, it has two fewer CPU cores and 12 fewer GPU cores compared to consoles.

YouTuber proves PS3 games can run on PS5 hardware

In addition to lower efficiency The basic architecture of the AMD BC-250 is no different than the PS5, making it a suitable testing ground for the system's hardware capabilities. After formulating this idea, Lowest Logan loaded RPCS3 on the BC-250 and was able to run one of the best PS3 racing games. Gran Turismo 5 PrologueIt mostly has minor glitches of the beloved PS3 platformer shader. Little Big Planet It also ran with little to no issues at 30fps on the scaled-down PS5 silicon. Look at the dog. It showed more problematic performance, but Lowest Logan commented that it had more to do with the open-world game's spotty performance for PS3.

Interestingly, the YouTuber found that the BC-250's memory runs at a slow 450MHz clock speed, meaning that residual performance for PS3 games could be much higher when properly optimized for the PS5 hardware. Lowest Logan runs an old Linux kernel on his BC-250, and while the PS5's custom operating system is built on FreeBSD, at least at the hardware level the PS5 can clearly run PS3 games. Only time will tell if Sony makes PS3 emulation on PS5 a reality. But until then, Lowest Logan's video serves as a powerful rebuttal to those who claim it's impossible.

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