NEW Sony PS5 'Slim' - Teardown + Thoughts

The Inside Scoop: Uncovering the Secrets of the New PS5 Slim

The new PS5 slim is a sleek and compact iteration of the original console, but what makes it tick? We'll dive into the inner workings of this gaming powerhouse and explore some of its most impressive features.

One of the key components that sets the new PS5 apart from its predecessors is its power supply. Despite being shrunk down to make room for a slimmer design, the power supply remains a robust 370 Watts. This is likely due to the fact that Sony has managed to optimize the console's power consumption without sacrificing performance.

As we take a closer look at the motherboard and heat sink, it becomes clear that the new PS5 relies on a radiator and heat pipe system to keep its components cool. The top heat sync is easily removable, revealing a complex network of radiators and heat pipes that work in tandem to dissipate heat away from the chip. This system is remarkably similar to that used in last year's PS5 models, suggesting that the new design may not be as revolutionary as initially thought.

However, one aspect of the new PS5 that does seem different is its thermal design. The blower fan at the rear of the console appears to be a 19-blade model, manufactured by Foxconn. This is distinct from the 17-blade and 23-blade fans used in previous models, which were typically produced by Delta and NMB. While the exact impact of this change on performance is unclear, it's likely that the new fan design has been optimized for improved cooling efficiency.

Moving on to the storage section, we find a single TBTE configuration, which is a significant departure from the six memory chips used in previous PS5 models. The new controller is also custom-built and appears to be designed specifically for this configuration. While performance may not have changed significantly, it's likely that the reduced number of chip configurations has led to cost savings for Sony.

The controller itself is an interesting aspect of the new PS5, with a customized SSD controller and storage chips that seem to be tailored specifically to this console. The fact that the controller remains largely unchanged despite the shift in storage configuration suggests that Sony has found a way to maintain performance without sacrificing any of the original's features.

One area where the new PS5 does differ from its predecessors is in the use of external radiators and heat pipes. While this design may seem counterintuitive, it appears to be an effective solution for cooling the console's components. The system uses a pair of radiators and a slew of heat pipes to dissipate heat away from the chip, all while keeping the overall design sleek and compact.

As we continue our exploration of the new PS5 slim, it becomes clear that Sony has managed to strike a remarkable balance between power consumption, cooling efficiency, and performance. While some aspects of the console's design may seem unusual or even counterintuitive at first glance, they all contribute to a gaming experience that is both fast and efficient.

In conclusion, the new PS5 slim represents a significant improvement over its predecessors in terms of design and functionality. From its compact power supply to its advanced thermal design and custom-built controller, every aspect of this console has been optimized for performance and efficiency. Whether you're a seasoned gamer or just looking for a next-generation gaming experience, the new PS5 slim is definitely worth considering.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso I got the new PS5 Slim in it's not officially called PS5 slim but it's the reduced weight smaller new generation of the PlayStation 5 and I've had this for a few days I have mixed feelings about it when I pulled it out of the box like right off the rip the first thing I noticed was how much lighter it was I've seen photos and leaks of this thing but the weight difference was very substantial compared to the PS5 that I was originally using now aside from its weight and size the other very obvious difference is the design aesthetic so it's got this kind of line that cuts right through the panels so it's a quad Panel System the original PlayStation 5 was a I mean on each side it's a single piece right so this is one panel and then this is a separate panel BL on this there's four of them there's one on the top and the bottom on each side and I think they derived this aesthetic from the controller like if you take a look at the control real quick this has a very obvious kind of you know split panel aesthetic right the white segments are separated and I think that's the same kind of look they're going for here where the different white panels are separated with this black Gap in between now when it comes to I guess slim versions of the PlayStations I've always been aesthetically drawn to them like even though I've owned every single original PlayStation I always buy the slim variant because they just look cooler and they're just like a little bit cleaner this time around I don't know there something about this that just it just doesn't appeal to me as much and obviously this is very subjective but I don't like the fact that it's like a two-toned like material like the top is this glossy finish but then the bottom is that matte finish which is actually a little bit different from the matte finish of the previous version but I don't know it just looks a little bit cheaper to me I don't love the look as much as I thought I would on a slim so I'm going to pop these panels off real quick just to show you what's going on here uh the top ones come off quite easily the bottom ones I wouldn't say they're hard but a little bit more work involved compared to the uh the top panels okay uh so the first thing you'll notice actually when you remove this uh this disc drive it is a removable disc drive and it's surprisingly easy to come it's toolless removal so I don't if you can see there's like a little arrow there but there's an arrow and it just lifts up and it hinges off so it lifts up and it comes right off it's super fast to remove uh so the way that the disc drive connects to the motherboard there's a connector here on the back of the disc drive that just slots right into that socket on that motherboard and uh the way that you put it back in is you hinge it on the left side and and it's done no screws nothing and then at the top here you can see the SSD Bay so this unscrews just like the original PS5 and you have access to the nvme slot so this one one here is seemingly compatible with anything that would have worked on the original PS5 now if you'll notice the vent styling at the top of the new PS5 is pretty plain there's no kind of uh stylized exhaust venting there if you compare this to the original PS5 this has like a very it's very noticeable even when the paneling is all closed up it's just it looks really plain to me so this is kind of like the front view of those Vents and they don't exist on the new PS5 so my take on this is that it just doesn't look as good I can imagine that the removal of those stylized vents can reduce the production cost of this new unit and that's ultimately the goal of any kind of slim model but not as nice looking before I open it up to show you the insides I want to draw your attention to a couple things uh the first is the size of the new PS5 is not actually that much smaller like when you compare them side by side it's like a little bit smaller but also if you had the dbrand plates like the dark plates the size difference is even less noticeable but I imagine dbrand being debrand is going to make some kind of crazy aesthetically pleasing shell for the new PS5 as well uh the other thing in the Box it doesn't come with the vertical stand like the original PS5 it comes with a horizontal stand which I think sucks it's a pair of these plastic feet that you slot into the side or I guess like the bottom of the PlayStation 5 and when you flip it onto its side if you can look in the that it's right that's the vertical stand or sorry that's the horizontal stand come on man this just looks this ain't the move now you don't need to use a vertical stand I feel like it's fairly sturdy in terms of its wobble prevention uh without the the vertical stand uh at least the disc version I imagine the the disc list version would be slightly less stable but I don't think you need the vertical stand if you don't want to spend that extra money I think it's like 30 bucks for the vertical stand now in terms of the ports it is a little different on the new PS5 the old one had one USPA and USBC up front now there's two USC's on the front there's no front facing USPA and then on the back uh they both had uspas on the back and that still hasn't changed but there like the layout and the positioning of the connections a little bit different all right let's open this up now from my testing my very crude testing I don't think that the chip in the new PS5 is a new chip uh the original like old school PS5 that launched with a 7 NM fabrication then it moved over to 6 nanm the overon plus chip I still think this is still using that 6 NM chip because the power draw was exactly the same uh from all the testing that I've done so far okay to get into this device it's just a bunch of security torque Cruise just real quick here this is the fan that's inside the new PS5 this one is a 19 blade fan made by foxcon I think it's different from any of the other kind of original ps5s I've seen a 17 blade fan and a 23 blade fan this is 19 and I don't think those ones were made by foxcon I think those were like there was like a Delta fan and NMB I think was the other one but yeah foxcon 19 blade fan on the new PS5 slim okay first things first the power supply it's still 370 Watts and I imagine that when you're trying to do a shrink like this to make the PS5 slim this is one of the things you got to tackle first because it's like you got to make it small okay let's get to the juice here this is the motherboard and the heat sink so the top heat sync comes off uh okay the first thing you'll notice there's a radiator and heat pipe that runs external this is actually quite similar to I think the last generation of the original ps5s in the sense that it just there's something that runs on the outside and then if you look on the flip side that heat pipe runs inside and it tags the vrms over here and then on the back side if you flip it you can take a look at the updated thermal system on the new PS5 so they have a pair of Radiators and a slew of heat pipes that run to the chip again now I mentioned earlier that I didn't think that this was running a updated chip and I have to stress my way of determining that kind of conclusion was that when I ran uh when I just checked the wattage pull right nothing was different between this version and the 1200 series PS5 from uh last year and that's very crude testing because I feel like if there was a 5 nanometer triip drop or 59mm process now it is possible that the wattage is still the same but doesn't output as much heat but the way that I'm looking at it right now it seems like the chip is the same but at the same time it also seems impossible like how are they cool cooling this in a smaller system with like a smaller thermal design like if you look at the heat sinks that we have here these are basically the only three objects that are pulling heat off of the system right this radiator this radiator this radiator and the heat pipes and I guess like the Shroud itself that adds a little bit of uh thermal dissipation but the blower it's pulling off the heat somehow it's able to cool all of this in a smaller system using the same chip I don't know something's not adding up I feel like there's something I'm missing but I'm the wrong channel to be coming to if you want this ain't 2D Tech tips here right I feel like lonus if he gets his hands on this thing or when he gets his hands on this he'll figure it out in a second okay one area that I want to draw your attention to is this section right here these chips handle the internal storage of the PS5 so we have the SSD controller itself we have the storage chips and then we have the RAM for uh this whole section now I when I heard that this was like a one tbte um configuration so yeah I forgot to mention that the new PS5 has one tab of storage the old ones had 825 GB and the way that they had done it before was they had six memory chips like storage chips that had a very specialized custom controller and all of the old ps5s it didn't matter which variation or which year you bought it had the exact same SSD configuration and the exact same controller that custom build controller and Sony talked about how this control is very important it was integral to what the PS5 was because it was super fast significantly faster than what the Xbox products had but it's different now now from what I can tell there's no difference in performance but again my testing is so crude the only thing I could do was just like load up a game and time it and the few games that I tested the load speeds were exactly the same uh very crude testing but something tells me there's more to this story than what I'm seeing here uh but the very least it now has less chip chps so I'm assuming production cost comes down uh I the controller has to be different this is a different SSD controller than the original ps5s um but as to how much it affects performance I don't know my guess is that it's going to be negligible because if developers had to kind of work around this and keep this in mind you know depending on which you know does a person have a PS5 or the new PS5 that'd be a little bit crazy uh but there you have it that's the PS5so I got the new PS5 Slim in it's not officially called PS5 slim but it's the reduced weight smaller new generation of the PlayStation 5 and I've had this for a few days I have mixed feelings about it when I pulled it out of the box like right off the rip the first thing I noticed was how much lighter it was I've seen photos and leaks of this thing but the weight difference was very substantial compared to the PS5 that I was originally using now aside from its weight and size the other very obvious difference is the design aesthetic so it's got this kind of line that cuts right through the panels so it's a quad Panel System the original PlayStation 5 was a I mean on each side it's a single piece right so this is one panel and then this is a separate panel BL on this there's four of them there's one on the top and the bottom on each side and I think they derived this aesthetic from the controller like if you take a look at the control real quick this has a very obvious kind of you know split panel aesthetic right the white segments are separated and I think that's the same kind of look they're going for here where the different white panels are separated with this black Gap in between now when it comes to I guess slim versions of the PlayStations I've always been aesthetically drawn to them like even though I've owned every single original PlayStation I always buy the slim variant because they just look cooler and they're just like a little bit cleaner this time around I don't know there something about this that just it just doesn't appeal to me as much and obviously this is very subjective but I don't like the fact that it's like a two-toned like material like the top is this glossy finish but then the bottom is that matte finish which is actually a little bit different from the matte finish of the previous version but I don't know it just looks a little bit cheaper to me I don't love the look as much as I thought I would on a slim so I'm going to pop these panels off real quick just to show you what's going on here uh the top ones come off quite easily the bottom ones I wouldn't say they're hard but a little bit more work involved compared to the uh the top panels okay uh so the first thing you'll notice actually when you remove this uh this disc drive it is a removable disc drive and it's surprisingly easy to come it's toolless removal so I don't if you can see there's like a little arrow there but there's an arrow and it just lifts up and it hinges off so it lifts up and it comes right off it's super fast to remove uh so the way that the disc drive connects to the motherboard there's a connector here on the back of the disc drive that just slots right into that socket on that motherboard and uh the way that you put it back in is you hinge it on the left side and and it's done no screws nothing and then at the top here you can see the SSD Bay so this unscrews just like the original PS5 and you have access to the nvme slot so this one one here is seemingly compatible with anything that would have worked on the original PS5 now if you'll notice the vent styling at the top of the new PS5 is pretty plain there's no kind of uh stylized exhaust venting there if you compare this to the original PS5 this has like a very it's very noticeable even when the paneling is all closed up it's just it looks really plain to me so this is kind of like the front view of those Vents and they don't exist on the new PS5 so my take on this is that it just doesn't look as good I can imagine that the removal of those stylized vents can reduce the production cost of this new unit and that's ultimately the goal of any kind of slim model but not as nice looking before I open it up to show you the insides I want to draw your attention to a couple things uh the first is the size of the new PS5 is not actually that much smaller like when you compare them side by side it's like a little bit smaller but also if you had the dbrand plates like the dark plates the size difference is even less noticeable but I imagine dbrand being debrand is going to make some kind of crazy aesthetically pleasing shell for the new PS5 as well uh the other thing in the Box it doesn't come with the vertical stand like the original PS5 it comes with a horizontal stand which I think sucks it's a pair of these plastic feet that you slot into the side or I guess like the bottom of the PlayStation 5 and when you flip it onto its side if you can look in the that it's right that's the vertical stand or sorry that's the horizontal stand come on man this just looks this ain't the move now you don't need to use a vertical stand I feel like it's fairly sturdy in terms of its wobble prevention uh without the the vertical stand uh at least the disc version I imagine the the disc list version would be slightly less stable but I don't think you need the vertical stand if you don't want to spend that extra money I think it's like 30 bucks for the vertical stand now in terms of the ports it is a little different on the new PS5 the old one had one USPA and USBC up front now there's two USC's on the front there's no front facing USPA and then on the back uh they both had uspas on the back and that still hasn't changed but there like the layout and the positioning of the connections a little bit different all right let's open this up now from my testing my very crude testing I don't think that the chip in the new PS5 is a new chip uh the original like old school PS5 that launched with a 7 NM fabrication then it moved over to 6 nanm the overon plus chip I still think this is still using that 6 NM chip because the power draw was exactly the same uh from all the testing that I've done so far okay to get into this device it's just a bunch of security torque Cruise just real quick here this is the fan that's inside the new PS5 this one is a 19 blade fan made by foxcon I think it's different from any of the other kind of original ps5s I've seen a 17 blade fan and a 23 blade fan this is 19 and I don't think those ones were made by foxcon I think those were like there was like a Delta fan and NMB I think was the other one but yeah foxcon 19 blade fan on the new PS5 slim okay first things first the power supply it's still 370 Watts and I imagine that when you're trying to do a shrink like this to make the PS5 slim this is one of the things you got to tackle first because it's like you got to make it small okay let's get to the juice here this is the motherboard and the heat sink so the top heat sync comes off uh okay the first thing you'll notice there's a radiator and heat pipe that runs external this is actually quite similar to I think the last generation of the original ps5s in the sense that it just there's something that runs on the outside and then if you look on the flip side that heat pipe runs inside and it tags the vrms over here and then on the back side if you flip it you can take a look at the updated thermal system on the new PS5 so they have a pair of Radiators and a slew of heat pipes that run to the chip again now I mentioned earlier that I didn't think that this was running a updated chip and I have to stress my way of determining that kind of conclusion was that when I ran uh when I just checked the wattage pull right nothing was different between this version and the 1200 series PS5 from uh last year and that's very crude testing because I feel like if there was a 5 nanometer triip drop or 59mm process now it is possible that the wattage is still the same but doesn't output as much heat but the way that I'm looking at it right now it seems like the chip is the same but at the same time it also seems impossible like how are they cool cooling this in a smaller system with like a smaller thermal design like if you look at the heat sinks that we have here these are basically the only three objects that are pulling heat off of the system right this radiator this radiator this radiator and the heat pipes and I guess like the Shroud itself that adds a little bit of uh thermal dissipation but the blower it's pulling off the heat somehow it's able to cool all of this in a smaller system using the same chip I don't know something's not adding up I feel like there's something I'm missing but I'm the wrong channel to be coming to if you want this ain't 2D Tech tips here right I feel like lonus if he gets his hands on this thing or when he gets his hands on this he'll figure it out in a second okay one area that I want to draw your attention to is this section right here these chips handle the internal storage of the PS5 so we have the SSD controller itself we have the storage chips and then we have the RAM for uh this whole section now I when I heard that this was like a one tbte um configuration so yeah I forgot to mention that the new PS5 has one tab of storage the old ones had 825 GB and the way that they had done it before was they had six memory chips like storage chips that had a very specialized custom controller and all of the old ps5s it didn't matter which variation or which year you bought it had the exact same SSD configuration and the exact same controller that custom build controller and Sony talked about how this control is very important it was integral to what the PS5 was because it was super fast significantly faster than what the Xbox products had but it's different now now from what I can tell there's no difference in performance but again my testing is so crude the only thing I could do was just like load up a game and time it and the few games that I tested the load speeds were exactly the same uh very crude testing but something tells me there's more to this story than what I'm seeing here uh but the very least it now has less chip chps so I'm assuming production cost comes down uh I the controller has to be different this is a different SSD controller than the original ps5s um but as to how much it affects performance I don't know my guess is that it's going to be negligible because if developers had to kind of work around this and keep this in mind you know depending on which you know does a person have a PS5 or the new PS5 that'd be a little bit crazy uh but there you have it that's the PS5\n"