It’s nothing new that from time to time SONY surprises us with a new version of their most recent PlayStation console. And no, we’re not talking about the Slim or Lite models that appear over time, but minor changes from year to year. And it is that the version for this year is the PS5 version 1200. Which brings some interesting changes. Is it better or worse than previous reviews?
If you ever manage to get your hands on a complete breakdown of a video game console, you’ll be amazed at how many parts there are, in some cases running into the hundreds of them. Therefore, once a system is complete, engineers will spend years studying what to reduce to have a system with the same performance at a lower cost. Which is a trend in any product that has a long shelf life in years in the market.
What has changed in the PS5 version 1200?
First of all, it should be clarified that this is not a system that is neither more powerful nor less powerful than the two previous ones. However, we cannot exclude that the collaboration with AMD resulted in a much fresher chip. Especially for the knowledge accumulated by Lisa Su in recent years. The most energy-efficient versions of its chips in PCs bear witness to this. In any case, what must have improved was the performance per watt, since the latest chip revision emits less heat and uses a smaller heatsink. For all this, it must be clarified that we are not facing a version under a more advanced node.
And how do we know that? Well, since the original PS5 playing Astro Play Room gave 217W of draw and has been reduced to 201W. Although we cannot exclude the use of new GDDR6 memory chips, which, although not faster, consume less data transfer than those of the first batch.
As for temperatures, the 1100 model had increased exhaust air an additional 10º. It therefore did not cool as efficiently as the initial model. Well, the 1200 version PS5, despite having an even smaller heatsink, reduces the temperature of the original model by 1°C.
New plate and less weight
In general, the PS5 version 1200 lost 200 grams against 1100, but the heat sink, the main chip is not the only change in the process. Concretely, from the initial model at the end of 2020, The PS5 has lost half a kilo of weight since its launch. Although the most important change that has contributed to this is precisely the fact that the new model has a new motherboard on which the components are soldered.
One complaint we had was how massive the console board was and the huge gap between the main chip and the RAM. Well, as you can see from the image above, SONY has reduced the plate size in the PS5 1200 version.
Although it must be said that we expected a new plate for a new industrial design and not a conservation of the classic 2020. And finally we have the fact that the NVMe SSD expansion bay has also been revampedgiven that having changed the PCB for a piece of metal, which appears to be aluminum and could be used to dissipate heat.
That is to say, the new PS5 is better designed, but does it justify the price increase? From our point of view, no, and that would also have happened sooner or later, since since the first PlayStation it is something that is fashionable at SONY.
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