Austin Evans just posted a video where he did a teardown of the new PS5. Upside is that it's slightly quieter. Downside is that they appear to have cheaped out on the cooling and it runs hotter. Heat sink is greatly reduced. Guess we have to see wait and see what that will mean in real world perfomance. Mods feel free to lock if this is old news.
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New version of the PS5 has hotter exhaust temps
- Thread starter sjackso3
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My question is how is the cooling of the memory modules? They would hit really high temps according to Gamer's Nexus (93/94C, though this is admittedly still within spec of course)
Glad I have a launch one it is as quiet as my Series X outside of some disc spin on occasion and doesn't seem to run as hot as that.
Thanks. I tried to post from my phone but for some reason the clipboard kept pointing to the wrong link. I went to my PC and fixed it.
He said that it's definitely quieter and the fan is upgraded. Not sure about coil whine.
Same. The disc drive is far from noisy, never had any coil whine from it (and I know what it can be like from my PC...), as quiet as my Xbox One X was. Living the dream indeed.
So for once im not a beta tester buying a console at launch? I feel like this also happened with the DS and the 3DS where the quality of the screen went down with later releases.
I might have ended up with one of the loudest coil whines of all PS5 launch models, but it's still so much better than fan noise (and especially the PS4 Pro fan noise) that I really don't care about it
Ahh, even that, didnt even know.
I dont really follow the PS5 since...I dont have a PS5 yet.
Just by itself it isn't much to go on. It could be that the console is doing a better job of exhausting the same amount of heat which would look like higher exhaust thermals, but it could also mean that the entire thing is just hotter but moving the same amount of heat as the old model relatively speaking, which isn't great
So, besides saving a few pennies, what's the reasoning behind the removal of the heatsink? Didn't these things already get pretty toasty as they were?
Edit: Hold on, his conclusion came from the amount of heat at the exhaust? Uhh... that is a hell of a conclusion to jump to if that's the case.
Edit 2: I'd rather wait for someone like maybe Gamers Nexus take a look at this to determine whether or not this is actually "worse" or perhaps, "better" since it's exhausting more heat than the old model.
Edit: Hold on, his conclusion came from the amount of heat at the exhaust? Uhh... that is a hell of a conclusion to jump to if that's the case.
Edit 2: I'd rather wait for someone like maybe Gamers Nexus take a look at this to determine whether or not this is actually "worse" or perhaps, "better" since it's exhausting more heat than the old model.
Launch model heatsink on left, revision model heatsink on right for those that can't watch the video.
EDIT: Found a higher quality picture of the comparison
EDIT: Found a higher quality picture of the comparison
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As an aside, I keep forgetting just how ridiculously massive the PS5 is. It looked insane in Austin's hands.
OT: That is a significant amount of empty space inside the new one, compared to the amount of copper in the first model.
OT: That is a significant amount of empty space inside the new one, compared to the amount of copper in the first model.
Thanks for the reply
I hope Sony knows what they are doing. Exhausting more heat but the PS5 being more cool inside sounds good but we will have to see if that is the case.
Launch model heatsink on left, revision model heatsink on right for those that can't watch the video.
Wow...they probably got a nice saving through that...
Austin opined that's why they are saying that it's now profitable. Makes sense.
Reading it back my phrasing could be a little clearer, but I think you got what I was trying to say 😋
Why are people always concerned about the temperature of consoles? I'm sure that they have been tested internally and won't lead to overheating.
Launch model heatsink on left, revision model heatsink on right for those that can't watch the video.
Launch model heatsink on left, revision model heatsink on right for those that can't watch the video.
I guess getting that day one PS5 was worth it this time.
Anyway, I'm sure in practical terms it won't make any difference and the new one is absolutely fine but still, I'd rather have the one on the left
The title of this thread and of the video doesn't make any sense at all.
Who cares about the temperature, as long as it in the specified range for normal operation? It literally does not matter. You don't even touch the console.
What does matter is noise. This was widely criticised, and it seems like they improved it. So how is the new PS5 revision worse? This is clickbait.
Who cares about the temperature, as long as it in the specified range for normal operation? It literally does not matter. You don't even touch the console.
What does matter is noise. This was widely criticised, and it seems like they improved it. So how is the new PS5 revision worse? This is clickbait.
I'm sure Sony got all the data from current PS5s and realized the current heatsink was overkill. But on the other hand, the PS3/PS4 were notoriously bad with the sound.
I want to see DF with these systems and see if there is any performance difference… GN did a video and the memory was already really hot before, I can't imagine now.
I want to see DF with these systems and see if there is any performance difference… GN did a video and the memory was already really hot before, I can't imagine now.
Because heat = degradation and it's important to know what the thing we're using is doing? And that blindly trusting manufacturers leads to bullshit like the original Xbox 360's RRoD?
What kind of response is this lmao
Huge reduction in heatsink size which explains the higher exhaust temperature. But it doesn't mean the new revision will overheat. Maybe Sony just went over board with the original design and figured that it came save several dollars by going this route.
Huh...so they basically remove a chunk worth of heatsink. I wonder if the reason for this is because the hotter temp is the average the old model will reach running at full load.Launch model heatsink on left, revision model heatsink on right for those that can't watch the video.
Exhaust temperature is simply not a meaningful metric (also there's only 3°C difference), how hot are the components is what matters.
The memory on the PS5 was already running really hot before. Not to mention thermal throttling can affect performance. We can't say much because Austin didn't do extensive testing… but blindly trusting Sony or any manufacturer trying to sneak in some cost cutting measures doesn't seem like a good take.
I would assume that they have enough data now to realize that maybe the bigger heatsink was overkill. My only concern is as the generation moves on and game become more demanding, will this particular version start to throttle itself? After they do a die shrink on future versions, I guess that won't be an issue but I defer to persons who know a lot more about the thermodynamics of silicon than I do.
