Final month, Sony started delivery a lightly revised model of its PlayStation 5 console with a smaller, lighter heatsink and a handful of different tweaks. An earlier teardown and analysis of the revised PS5 made headlines as a result of it urged that the brand new PS5 ran hotter than the outdated one, based mostly on the temperature of the air being exhausted from the console. This does make some intuitive sense for those who assume {that a} smaller heatsink will routinely be worse at dissipating warmth. However extra detailed and exact testing from the YouTubers at Hardware Busters International backs up our skepticism of that declare, exhibiting that the PS5’s exhaust air is hotter as a result of the brand new cooling system is doing a greater job of eradicating warmth from the console, as cooling programs are supposed to do.
The {Hardware} Busters testing measured the temperature of the APU, reminiscence, voltage regulator modules (VRMs), and exhaust air whereas Satan Could Cry 5 was working on each PS5 fashions. The exhaust air is certainly a couple of levels hotter within the new PS5 than the outdated one, however on common, the brand new PS5’s APU ran about 11°C cooler, dropping from about 51°C to 40°C.
The reminiscence and VRM temperatures within the new PS5 rise a bit—the reminiscence temperature goes up by round 7°C and the VRM temperature goes up by round 1.3°C—however neither improve ought to have a big impact on the console’s reliability or longevity. The a lot bigger drop in APU temperature is definitely worth the tradeoff.
Evaluating the CPU, RAM, VRM, and exhaust temperatures of the unique PS5 and the revised mannequin with the smaller heatsink.
These outcomes solely evaluate a single outdated PS5 to a single new PS5, and the numbers may look completely different with a bigger pattern dimension. However they need to no less than persuade you that the newer, lighter PS5’s smaller heatsink will not be routinely going to lead to a warmer, louder, extra failure-prone console. The brand new PS5’s mannequin quantity is CFI-1102A, whereas the unique’s is CFI-1000—search for these numbers if you wish to be certain to get the brand new revision.
The {Hardware} Busters group recognized a couple of different minor variations within the system board with the brand new revision however discovered that just about all the pieces essential to preserving the console cool—the quantity and sort of followers, the fan velocity, and the noise stage—are both equivalent or almost equivalent. The brand new PS5 was about one decibel louder, and its energy consumption below most circumstances was a few watts increased, however this sort of minor variance between consoles is regular and never essentially associated to the heatsink or different inside modifications.
