Sekä Playstation 5:llä että Xbox Series X -konsolilla on omat keinonsa optimoida pelien resoluutio, ruudunpäivitys ynnä muut asiat, joilla pelaajalle luodaan visuaalinen elämys pelin parissa. Playstation 5:ssä tulee olemaan ihan oma juttunsa 3D-äänten toistolle, ja nimenä on Tempest Engine. Ainakin yksi pelinkehittäjä on sitä mieltä, että äänten ohella Tempest tuo lisätehoa myös perinteisemmälle CPU:lle.
Gaming Boltille ajatuksiaan kertoi Cradle Gamesin Marc-Andr'e Jutras.
"3D audio has been around for a long while.You could have it running on existing consoles easily... but not a lot of game do, because it pretty much takes too much CPU time. Until now, it had to run software. But now it's hardware accelerated. It means there's no reason not to use it. For us, it will most likely mean PS5 might sound better with the flick of a switch. Assuming you have the audio system to handle that. Also means we could have a CPU thread freed from heavy audio computation! Even if both consoles had exactly the same CPU, having a specific task being hardware accelerated can be a huge boost for the CPU."