The M5 uses the Digic 7, M50 uses Digic 8With the 2020 Olympics around the corner, we're going to have a sports R by 2020Q2 I'm sure, whether this announcement is it or not. (It may also simply be used at the Olympics before it's available to the general public; I think they've done that before.)
As for whether it's a slower hi-res or faster med-res, I imagine "it" will actually be two models. It's just too easy to make two identical cameras differing only in sensor and shooting rate: witness the EOS-1D v.s EOS-1Ds or a7 and a7R. They may still stagger them by a quarter or two.
As for data-moving capability, they just introduced the DIGIC 8 chip and it's only been used in the M5 and R. Several other Canon bodies have dual DIGICs so I'm going to guess the new model will have dual DIGIC 8. Since the resolution is about twice the R, I wouldn't be surprised if they have 1) a model with the R's shooting speed but double resolution, plus 2) a second model with more like 35MP but double speed. This second may also have the CPU power to use the full sensor for 4k/25.
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