Sony Project Canis Handheld Rumored for Late 2027 With Custom 3nm AMD Chip

Sony has not officially announced the handheld device codenamed Project Canis, and its final name, specifications, and launch arrangements have yet to be confirmed by the company. Information currently in circulation indicates the device is planned for release in late 2027, but Sony has not confirmed this timing, nor whether the device belongs to the PlayStation 6 project. The related specifications concern a custom processor, unified memory, GPU architecture, power range, rendering resolution, and PSSR 3.0 technology. All of the following content is circulating information that has not been officially confirmed.

Circulating processor information indicates that Project Canis will use a custom 3nm AMD processor with six Zen 6 architecture cores, comprising four Zen 6c cores and two low-power Zen 6 LP cores. The device will also carry 24GB of LPDDR5X unified memory on a 192-bit bus, with a power range of 15 to 25 watts. These parameters are circulating hardware-configuration details, not official specifications published by Sony.

Circulating GPU information indicates that Project Canis uses the RDNA 5 architecture with 16 compute units and supports Dual-Issue FP32 instructions. In handheld mode, the GPU runs at 1.2GHz for a theoretical 4.91 TFLOPS; when connected to a dock, the frequency can rise to 1.65GHz for a theoretical 6.75 TFLOPS. Other information indicates that in handheld mode the device will be limited by thermal conditions, with in-game rendering resolution set to 540p and then upscaled to the screen's native 1080p through PSSR 3.0. The technology is described as supporting frame generation, but no actual gameplay content is available to confirm the results.

According to circulating estimates, PSSR 3.0 could give the device performance equivalent to 10 to 11 TFLOPS in handheld mode and about 14 TFLOPS when docked. These estimates compare the effective compute performance with the base PlayStation 5 and the PlayStation 5 Pro, which has 16.7 TFLOPS, but the effective compute figures are not metrics published by Sony. Other circulating information describes Project Canis's base rendering performance as higher than that of the Xbox Series S and says it performs better in ray tracing and path tracing; it also describes PSSR 3.0's image quality as exceeding Nvidia DLSS 4.5. None of these claims has been officially confirmed. The currently circulating launch target is late 2027, but it remains unclear whether Project Canis will launch alongside the PlayStation 6.