Sony is reportedly developing a new handheld gaming device under the codename Project Canis. According to reports, the company targets a release by the end of 2027, though Sony has not officially confirmed the project or its connection to the PlayStation 6 ecosystem.
The device is expected to feature a custom 3nm AMD processor with six Zen 6 cores, including four Zen 6c and two Zen 6 LP cores. It will likely include 24GB of LPDDR5X unified memory on a 192-bit bus, with a power consumption range between 15 and 25 watts.
The GPU, based on the RDNA 5 architecture, will feature 16 compute units. Its frequency is projected at 1.2GHz in handheld mode, providing 4.91 TFLOPS of theoretical performance, and 1.65GHz in docked mode, reaching 6.75 TFLOPS.
The device will reportedly use PSSR 3.0 technology to upscale 540p internal rendering to a 1080p native resolution. This software solution is expected to support frame generation, potentially boosting effective performance to 10–11 TFLOPS in handheld mode and 14 TFLOPS when docked.
Industry rumors suggest that Project Canis may outperform the Xbox Series S in base rendering, ray tracing, and path tracing capabilities. Claims also indicate that PSSR 3.0 image quality could exceed that of Nvidia DLSS 4.5, though these performance figures remain unverified.
