inside this box directly from japan is a
brand new
updated version of the ps5 what you
might ask is in a brand new updated
version of the ps5 that i definitely
spent a lot of money to have overnighted
to california we're about to find out
all i know is the due to some japanese
regulatory filings very exciting i know
this ps5 is supposedly
a third of a kilo or about a little over
half a pound lighter than the existing
ps5 digital there's also some talk that
it might have a different wi-fi card the
screw is different this ps5 is currently
on sale in japan and i believe australia
but my assumption is is that this is the
first revision of the ps5 that will
probably be sold everywhere pretty
shortly is there tape no it's not green
it's green it's literally green i'm
colorblind no i think you're just blind
that's 100 true statement ask my wife
yeah
i could
i didn't have to tell
not only are you down over a thousand
dollars but you're sleeping on the couch
tonight it's subtle but the existing
model is the 1015b whereas the new model
is the 1100b why is it lighter is it
less quality did they take out some
stuff
it actually does feel a little lighter i
don't think i'm gonna
take try it here's one i'm not gonna
tell you which one that is
that's the japanese one see so first of
all we have the original digital edition
which comes in at
30
828 grams and
35.42 wow 300 grams lighter riveting
content
look it's lighter good job here's the
question why is it lighter at least
means that i'm not crazy for making this
video
well well
let's not go that far you can't see
right now i have a whole array of
testing equipment underneath it's
thanks this is the original standard
this is something i do know is updated
okay that's kind of hard i probably
would want to use a screwdriver you know
what i'm actually totally like not
kidding that is way easier to do with my
fingers now that we have some uh a new
and improved slightly easier stand while
we fire these up and see if there's any
actual
physical difference that we can notice
with the hardware how riveting is this
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internet look mom said we had digital
foundry at home we got digital foundry
at home
welcome to the ps5 head to head on my
left side is the original launch model
of the ps5 digital the 10 series if you
will whereas on my right side is the
brand new 11 series digital let's start
out by taking a listen and a little
probe with my sound meter of how loud
the original ps5 is
43.5 decibels okay
42.1
very small difference it's very subtle
though and i can tell you very
confidently that if you're more than a
few feet away from either of these this
one might technically be a little bit
quieter it's not something you're going
to notice so this is a seek thermal
camera now i have more fun goodies like
a infrared thermometer but i should use
this because this will give us a good
sense for what it looks like in terms of
the actual temperature of the models
coming straight through the back we have
5152 degrees okay so now let's take a
look at the new one and see where we're
at here 55 56 so
this one's actually
somewhat warmer three or four degree
difference isn't huge but that actually
is something especially if you consider
the fans sound different
my hunch is that the difference between
these two ps5s and the weight is that
this has a different cooling assembly
the new one is running pretty
consistently three to five degrees
warmer than the old one celsius yeah so
in fahrenheit that's probably like
eight nine degrees warmer that's
something that you would notice if
you're having throttling issues with an
existing ps5 if it doesn't have like
great airflow or something the
difference of five degrees celsius
that might not seem exciting but that is
actually enough to cause
some difference in either your
performance or in just the longevity of
the console if it's sitting there
because the exterior temperature is
always significantly cooler than what
the actual chip on the inside is running
and right now we're in open air this is
not in the cabinet no this is about the
best case scenario of austin being baked
by ps5 so the next thing i want to try
is how much power each of these are
taking traditionally when there are slim
models when there are upgrades to
playstations or xboxes a lot of times
they will tweak the chips and the actual
power draw off on the inside i don't
think there's a new chip in this mostly
just because this model is coming out
less than a year after the ps5 but our
handy dandy power meter doesn't lie the
old school original ps5 is sitting
pretty consistently at about
225 watts so that is the control 228 230
oh wow so the thing with the ps5 that
you need to consider
is that unlike the xbox there is a
variable boost frequency right so the
ps5 will run the cpu and gpu as high as
they can but there's some variability
there if we're talking three four five
watts to me that seems more margin of
error of certain ps5s are just going to
boost slightly higher or alternatively
certain silicon inside the ps5 may
require slightly higher voltage to hit
those same frequencies so at this point
we've established that the new ps5 runs
slightly quieter but somewhat
significantly
hotter and is ballpark the same as far
as power goes so let's start out by
taking them apart
in equal
distances of time oh look is that jimmy
from ps ready to help me take apart
playstation wow it's almost like we
could have planned that to be a smoother
transition all right here's the deal
let's take them apart bit by bit i've
got the scale we're gonna keep going
until we get to the bottom of this and
find out why they're lighter what the
wi-fi cards are all that kind of stuff
sounds good so the screw was different
screw is absolutely different okay so
you got the new one i have the new one
you've got the old one wait let me try
it i've been talking about it for a
while you made like eight videos on this
video
it is easier to do okay
it's a big difference okay i got mine i
got mine
is it really that easy well look at the
fan blades though are there actually you
know what we'll say
yeah if we take it apart let's open up
the ssd and see if there's anything
different here hey wait wait wait that's
different
that's a different shade it's lighter
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see everyone made fun of me when i did
it jimmy did it too good thing this
isn't mine the sad thing is i have an
entire video on how to disassemble a ps5
but that was like last year and i've
totally forgotten how i did it and i
didn't watch it
wait wait wait wait i've i don't have
power tools i gotta take this personally
i'm trying to get ahead a little bit so
i can look like i know what i'm doing
when you get done with your part oh the
fans are different so they are sort of
similar but this one that has much more
curved blades you see it has this bottom
bit which actually is attached all the
way around there's just an empty gap on
the inside of this one so this one is a
delta electronics fan
as is that so it's the same manufacturer
which delta makes a lot of fans for tons
of different things okay so new fan on
the scale 257 grams okay so grab the old
one
the search continues for our uh 300
grams oh
find something
jimmy you smart smart man we definitely
just missed a screw yeah we missed a
screw on the count of three one
two three
oh
you've got something
there's something that's copper colored
yes they're crazy this is bigger what is
that absolutely do you know what this is
it's part of the thing so a couple
things i noticed uh you see how the
copper heatsink on the original one is
much wider look how much extra space
there is on this so there's clearly
something missing from this side
i also see look you have a black and a
white wire for your wi-fi i have a white
and a blue oh so you do have a new wi-fi
thing you know what this heating thing
though for a console that is coming off
of two generations of consoles that had
major heating problems and one of the
big issues reportedly with building this
thing was heat i don't love that the
newer model has a smaller heat sink i
mean look how much extra there's a full
finger of space which is being
completely wasted which is not there um
also you can see the pcb right it's very
clearly light green versus darker green
here can you read me the mod the serial
number on that wi-fi let me do this just
because it's gonna be really hard to see
a camera i'm just gonna take photos of
both of these and then we'll just put it
in that cloud this i am almost positive
unless it's the bluetooth but if this is
the wi-fi this looks identical oh wait
no there's something else different look
at this i have a blue and a white that
comes down right yeah you have a white
and a black and you also have another
white in a black so you have four so i
would assume one of these is for
bluetooth and one of these one of these
are for wi-fi dude this new ps5
this is a i mean i don't think there's
any doubt here this is a cost reduced
lighter weight less material like the
one because it's lighter is because they
literally removed cooling
lines up too because they just reported
that they're finally not taking a loss
on these things yeah so yeah it's what
we guessed in the videos where we talked
about it they're just using cheaper
stuff
oh my god
i've got like half the heatsink
oh wow yeah that's like really different
that's not even close wait
that directly explains why the new one
is so much hotter yeah holy holy you've
got like a big chunk of this i've got a
little chunk of this now you're making
me feel like i need to compensate with
my ps5 look at how different that is
that's crazy dude wow they're different
colors like these are clearly just
entirely different yeah
absolutely well we know it's not as
efficient because it runs hotter the fan
sounds a little bit better but that
makes sense because this is i bet i
believe a slightly better fan that does
not compensate for the lack of i mean
i'm gonna guess when we weigh these 300
grams difference in heatsink yeah i
don't want to like make any bold claims
here but that doesn't seem good no no
there's no scenario which this is good
technically if sony's able to get
usable good uh performance out of this
smaller lighter heatsink they save money
and it should be okay but we know that
even with a very brief test this one
runs hotter which makes sense because
i'm sure the chip inside is the exact
same look you've got all this extra
copper here yeah they i guess for the
launch models over engineered the cool
which they should have done because sony
again has had major problems with heat
in their consoles i would guess what's
happened is that sony now they've got
almost a year of ps5 data they've spent
more time testing everything they've
determined that while yes
this is going to run a little bit hotter
that's probably fine that it won't
negatively impact things that much i
don't know man that doesn't seem wise
considering that the ps5 like you said
changes its wattage based on what's
going on
in the console so potentially long term
especially as you imagine this gets
started to get caked and dust and
whatnot you got less fins less mass
you could actually lose performance but
i wonder though
with everything being so expensive to
produce right now that this actually
helps their bottom line compensate for
the power 100 does because they just
announced that they're making a profit
on these things now so i'm taking a loss
16 40
39 okay so that is the original big
chungus heatsink okay let's see where
we're at on this one so i'll flip it
over the same way you did i'll rest it
gently on the scale 1368 yeah that's it
they literally took out a very sizable
amount of copper and aluminum heat fans
unlike the fans you know which ps5 you
have based on the model number the fans
are a total crapshoot you might have one
fan or might have the other and the only
way to tell is to take off the side
plates which is annoying but now you
have an easy way to know if your ps5 is
going to run hotter the only thing that
we can't really determine is the
difference in the wi-fi the there
certainly is a difference right because
i i only had two
antennas you had four so
something has been simplified or changed
but unless we actually sit down and do
like side-by-side wi-fi tests the ps3
specifically was a console that when it
came out every different time they
updated it it got worse and worse and
worse and worse the very first update
we've seen less than a year into the ps5
i don't think there's any argument that
this is a
worse console at least for thermals and
for the the cooling maybe they've
changed some wi-fi stuff maybe as we dig
deeper into this we'll find other weird
quirks and features but as far as i'm
concerned i would rather have a launch
ps5 especially if you're putting an ssd
in your console dude like even if you
had that heat sink that ssd is gonna get
hot and if this one has worse cooling
you're gonna have trouble with that ssd
there you have it friends the ps5 is
exposed we've now determined the true
root of all evils which is about 300
grams of copper aluminum heats thanks
jimmy thank you very much for joining if
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