THE CRUNCH
The AnyPS5 project, which aims to run PlayStation 5 games natively on Windows and Linux without emulation, says it has now translated 100% of the console's GPU shader instructions. That covers all 1,166 instructions for the PS5's "Oberon" graphics engine, which is based on AMD's RDNA 2 architecture, meaning the shader instruction set is fully decoded.
The project works like Wine or Proton rather than a traditional emulator: it relinks PS5 executables into the host system's native format and reimplements the console's system libraries for dynamic linking. Because the PS5 already runs on x86-64 Zen 2 hardware similar to a modern PC, AnyPS5 skips CPU emulation entirely and recompiles shaders into SPIR-V for Vulkan.
GPU translation was the milestone, but it is not the finish line. Of the PS5's 3,034 system libraries, 2,573 are translated so far, or 84.81%. Once the remaining 461 are done, the project expects PS5 games to run natively on PCs, with the game seeing the same system calls it would on the console.