console from Sony doesn’t stop you from losing weight. And it is that if the 2020 PlayStation 5 model weighed around 4.5kg, the 2022 model does not reach 3.9kg. For this weight loss, the Japanese company had to change its characteristic the main thing: heat sink… and SoC.
When we broke the news at the end of August, tests showed that the new PlayStation 5 chassis is lighter due to less heat dissipation. Despite this, tests have shown that the console consumed and heated less.
It didn’t make much sense in terms of reducing heatsink performance. How could it happen that the computer could lose heat dissipation and, in spite of everything, heat up less. The answer, as many suspected, was that the processor was replaced with a more efficient one.
Sony’s latest console has an updated SoC fabricated on TSMC’s 6nm process.. This smaller node is compatible with the 7nm node used so far for the Sony PS5 Oberon SoC.
Console is now more efficient
The new 6nm chip has the same design and no change in CPU configuration.. At the same time, the basic computing and graphics architectures of Zen2 have not changed.
However, the construction and performance of the Oberon Plus is identical to the 7nm variant. the chip is smaller, about 260mm² compared to the original 300mm². These changes mean the console needs less power and less cooling requirements.
For AMD and Sony, this also means more chips can be made on a single wafer. therefore, the estimated production cost of the updated console may be 12% lower. It is expected that after prefix 5be the Xbox Series X, which will update its SoC by the end of the year.
Source: Computer Hoy
