PS5: New model worse? Youtuber defends his assessment

Buyers of the PS5 will in future receive a high probability a modified model of the PS5 , which brings 300 grams less on the scales. The weight savings is based on a reduction of the heat sink. However, it is open whether to give rise to buyers of the revision significant disadvantages.

The Youtuber Austin Evans, who male the new PS5 in a recently released video , does not believe that the changes to the heat sink have no thermal effects. In a statement he defended the assessment that the hardware is worse than the launch model.

What I saw is that the new PS5 is hotter runs, So Evans . And with the thermal images I could do, and the fact that I have disassembled the PS5 and seen that Sony has significantly reduced the size of the heat sink, I have counted two and two and found that it has a downgrade compared to the First model is.

Objections not compatible with physics

According to Evans, there were objections and many people speculate that the new PS5 could run thermally more efficiently. But according to the Youtuber, such statements are simply not compatible with the laws of physics. Only if the PS5 had a completely different layout or alternative cooling such as additional air channels or a larger fan, this statement would be plausible according to Evans.

The PS5 just has a smaller heat sink. There are fewer aluminum, less copper, less material, 300 grams less. And the laws of physics simply say that there is less material and less surface to derive the heat from the chip, so the Youtuber continues.

But is the chip of the updated PS5 really hotter? Then Evans does not want to be stunned: Can I now tell you with 1000 percent security that the chip that really is the most important in the interior, or that the actual [system on chip] is hotter running than the original model? No, without being Sony, I can not tell you exactly what this is.

However, with a healthy sense of sense, Evans can claim that the cooling device is much smaller and therefore the temperatures fail significantly higher. That's why I feel pretty sure in the fact that the new PS5 just does not run as cool as the original, says the final words of Evans.

Digital Foundry can not recognize heat problems

Digital Foundry also accepted the PS5 in an article and came to the conclusion after its own first tests that nothing has changed at the performance of the console. At the same time, the publication emphasized that does not speak for a heat problem.

Whether the device is hotter or not, still needs to be tested, but the logic suggests that if the new cooling unit of the task would not have grown, the fan would have to increase its speed and volume to dissipate the jacks. This does not seem to be the case - and even after hours the power consumption is still constant , SO DIGITAL FOUNDRY .

Evans himself came in his right rudimentary test to the conclusion that the new model of the PS5 is even quieter than the launch model, which could speak for a reduced fan activity. Also Digital Foundry could not detect any increased noise: It is crucial that the acoustics of the new console has not noticeably changed in the hours running the scene the processor in full swing.

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Digital Foundry believes that the heat sink was larger in the launch model and could therefore be reduced. With regard to the production process, it is important to know that in the launch of a console, the individual components of the device are produced simultaneously - in parallel, not in series.

While the silicon runs from the assembly line, the heat sinks are also made. Nobody wants another red ring or a yellow light of death, so it makes sense to build redundancy in the design, says the assessment.

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