PS5 Pro PSSR Upgrade – Sony’s Huge Visual Update Makes PS5 Pro Even Better

The PS5 Pro PSSR upgrade is the kind of system-level improvement that can quietly change how your entire library looks. Sony has confirmed an upgraded version of PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution) is rolling out, with Resident Evil Requiem as the first title using the more advanced model. In March 2026, a system software update adds a new toggle called “Enhance PSSR Image Quality”, letting PS5 Pro owners test the upgraded PSSR across supported games.

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What is the PS5 Pro PSSR upgrade, in plain English?

PSSR is Sony’s AI upscaling tech for PS5 Pro. Games can render internally at a lower resolution, then PSSR reconstructs the image to look sharper on a 4K display while protecting frame rate. The “upgrade” is not a small tweak: Sony says the new version changes both the underlying algorithm and the neural network approach, targeting cleaner detail reconstruction and fewer upscaling artifacts.

Official video (Launch Trailer)

Here is the official PlayStation upload for Resident Evil Requiem, the first game confirmed to ship with the upgraded PSSR model on PS5 Pro.

When does it arrive and how do you enable it?

Sony’s messaging is essentially “now and next month.” The upgraded PSSR debuts in Resident Evil Requiem, and in March 2026 a PS5 system software update adds a system-level switch:

Go to Settings
Open Screen and Video
Find Enhance PSSR Image Quality and toggle it on

Important: this is designed to be reversible. If you do not like the result in a specific title, toggle it off and retest. Think of it as “new upscaler model on demand,” not a permanent change.

Why this is a big deal: what you should actually expect to improve

In the real world, the wins tend to show up in the places upscalers historically struggle: fine hair strands, thin geometry, specular highlights, and busy scenes with motion. Capcom specifically highlighted hair and beard strand rendering and how light passes through overlapping strands, which are exactly the sort of details that can turn into shimmer or mush when an older upscaler loses track of the signal.

My take: PS5 Pro has always had the raw headroom, but upscaling quality is what decides whether that headroom becomes “clean 4K-looking image” or “sharp, but with weird edges.” If Sony’s upgraded model reduces artifacts across your Pro-enhanced games, it becomes the most meaningful PS5 Pro update since launch because it improves the thing you stare at for hundreds of hours: image quality.

What it will NOT magically fix

This is still upscaling, not a cheat code. If a game has aggressive post-processing, poor anti-aliasing, unstable performance modes, or a messy engine-level reconstruction pipeline, the upgraded PSSR can help, but it cannot rewrite the entire rendering stack. Also, some titles may see smaller gains than others depending on how the original PSSR implementation was tuned.

Which games benefit?

Sony’s wording points to two paths: games can be updated to explicitly adopt the improved PSSR, and the March system toggle is meant to let you experience the new model with PS5 Pro games that currently support PSSR. In practice, the best outcomes will likely come from titles that already lean heavily on PSSR and have clean performance modes, because they are easiest to “lift” with a better reconstruction model.

What to test first (quick, practical checklist)

Fine detail stress test: hair, foliage, chain-link fences, and moving highlights.
Motion clarity: slow pan the camera in a detailed scene and look for shimmer reduction.
Performance sanity: verify your target mode still holds frame rate after toggling on the new model.
VRR users: retest your preferred mode with VRR enabled and confirm stability.

Bottom line

If you bought PS5 Pro for “performance without compromise,” this is the update you were waiting for. The upgraded PSSR is exactly the kind of behind-the-scenes tech leap that can make old favorites look cleaner and new releases feel more next-gen, without asking you to buy new hardware.

Official PlayStation Blog: Upgraded PSSR upscaler is coming to PS5 Pro