Certain circuits ramp up density of trees too - to the point where in some cases, Polyphony actually uses completely different, higher detail models on the new console. Foliage is always tricky to render: there's much more of it and of a much higher quality on PlayStation 5.

That said, the GT Sport engine basis does mean that the older machines are still getting a competitive experience and on first glance, one might think that PS5's improvements are subtle, but the more you look at how the games compare, the more you appreciate the increase in fidelity. In this respect, it's similar to the recently released Horizon Forbidden West - PS5 is delivering a much bigger boost to the experience than the raw teraflop count suggests. Meanwhile, in raw compute power, PS5 has around 2.5x the GPU power of the Pro - but it's doing so much more than simply pushing more pixels. It's the comparison between Pro and PS5 that's perhaps most interesting though: both target ultra HD displays, but the Pro is doing it with around one third of the pixel count of the PS5. Watch on YouTube Gran Turismo 7 - a remarkably dynamic head-to-head across three renditions of PlayStation hardware. Essentially though, you can consider the standard PS4 as a 1080p rendition of the Pro experience. The comparisons between base PS4 and Pro beyond the pixel count is minimal - they're very, very close indeed - though we did spot some lower resolution texture elements on the vanilla machine. PS5 has increased clarity then, but we also noted fewer edge aliasing artefacts too. We've already established that PlayStation 5 operates at native 4K with no sign of dynamic resolution scaling, and it's clear that the last-gen consoles stick to the established GT Sport formula: it's native 1080p on the base PS4, rising to a checkerboarded 1800p on PS4 Pro (though if your Pro is set to 1080p output resolution on the front-end of the console, that's what you'll get instead). Let's start with the absolute basics then. It's clear that the game is indeed based on the existing Gran Turismo Sport engine, but the balancing act in exploiting PS5 while still looking and running great on PS4-class hardware is remarkable. Race replays can be saved and share over the cloud across all consoles, while access to in-game cameras effectively gives us the ability to switch between versions at will. How Polyphony Digital has scaled Gran Turismo 7 across three different PlayStation consoles, each with a very different performance profile is absolutely fascinating - not least because the developer has also given us the mechanism to easily produce a vast array of comparison assets to pore over, laying the differences bare in a remarkable way.

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