PC hardware website GameGPU has shared a leak about the PS6 handheld, known by its codename Project Canis and referred to as "PSP 3" in the article.

The article recaps the handheld console's specs: a custom 3-nanometer AMD Canis processor featuring six Zen 6 cores (including four standard Zen 6c cores and two power-saving Zen 6 LP cores), paired with 24 GB of shared LPDDR5X memory using a 192-bit bus, and strict power limits between 15 W and 25 W. The graphics unit is equipped with 16 Compute Units built on the newer RDNA 5 architecture, which supports Dual-Issue FP32 instructions.

When used as a portable device, the processor runs at 1.2 GHz and delivers 4.91 TFLOPS of computing power. When connected to a dock, it speeds up to 1.65 GHz and reaches a peak performance of 6.75 TFLOPS. However, according to the leak, the handheld's real ace up its sleeve will be the upcoming PSSR 3.0, which will deliver proper Frame Generation support on PlayStation consoles, as teased earlier this year by System Architect Mark Cerny.

According to GameGPU, when the Project Canis handheld is in mobile mode, its rigid TDP limits will force an internal rendering resolution of 540p, which will then be upscaled to the console's native 1080p (FullHD) display. Thanks to PSSR 3, the website claims the effective teraflop count will reach 10-11 TFLOPS in mobile mode and 14 TFLOPS when docked, thus surpassing the base PlayStation 5 and getting quite close to the PlayStation 5 Pro's 16.7 TFLOPS.

This confirms earlier leaks from insider Kepler_L2, who claimed that Project Canis is ahead of the Xbox Series S (which reaches 4 TFLOPS) in rasterization and is massively more performant in ray tracing and path tracing. Kepler_L2 also boasted that PSSR 3 would surpass even NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 in terms of quality, which bodes well for the handheld's image quality.

Last but certainly not least, GameGPU adds that Sony is targeting a late 2027 launch for Project Canis. It is unclear whether its release window is tied to the big sister, the PlayStation 6, which may be delayed well beyond 2027, according to some rumors.

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