Polyphony Digital has confirmed that the free PlayStation 5 Pro Enhanced update for Gran Turismo 7 will bring with it "experimental" support for 8K60: 8K resolution at 60 frames per second.
The news comes following today's somewhat racing game-light PlayStation State of Play broadcast, which featured some of the titles coming to PlayStation 5 and PlayStation VR2 over the next few months. While GT7 appeared in a few very brief clips during a segment presented by PlayStation's lead architect Mark Cerny, there was nothing new or specific revealed.
However a follow-up post on the PlayStation Blog brought insights from various first- and third-party developers regarding how they're approaching PlayStation 5 Pro support. Polyphony Digital was first on the list, with Shuichi Takano, main programmer at PD, explaining what GT7 can achieve on the Pro console.
Takano notes that while the PS5 Pro's capabilities may be used to enhance other titles to bring 4K60 — using the PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) upscaler to obviate the need for players to choose between a "quality" resolution and "performance" framerate mode — GT7 is already outputting this on the PS5.
PSSR though can be used on a native 4K input too, bringing GT7 up to 8K resolution without sacrificing the framerate at all. Support for 8K60 will therefore be included in the free PlayStation 5 Pro Enhanced update for Gran Turismo 7, though it's noted as "experimental".
Of course we've already heard about an 8K version of GT7 back when the PS5 Pro was revealed, but this is the first proper confirmation that it will retain the 60fps frame rate. It's probably not too much of a surprise, given that GT7 already has a 4K 120fps mode on the base PS5 (with variable refresh rate enabled on the console), and the Pro Enhanced version is touting real-time ray-tracing on-track in 4K60 — though this does use PSSR to make up for the native resolution hit.
Players looking forward to this higher resolution mode will need a compatible display and a sufficiently high bandwidth (48Gbps) HDMI cable in order to take advantage of 8K.
