PlayStation 5 gets 6nm SoC

According to Angstronomics, a 3rd exemplary of PS5 console codenamed “CFI-1202” comes with a smaller SoC called “Oberon Plus”. 

The latest variant of the Sony console features an updated SoC manufactured utilizing TSMC 6nm process technology. This smaller node is compatible with 7nm node that has been utilized for Sony PS5 “Oberon” SoC until now.

The 6nm larboard of Oberon has the aforesaid plan and introduces nary changes to the processor configuration. That said, the underlying Zen2 compute and RDNA2 graphics architectures person not changed.

Oberon Plus SoC (left) vs Oberon (right), Source: Angstronomics

The find of the caller SoC comes weeks aft archetypal reports of the caller console variant that has been spotted successful Australia. As it turns out, the caller mentation not lone has upgraded internals, specified arsenic a caller mainboard, smaller and lighter cooler, but besides an updated silicon powering the console. A afloat teardown of the 3rd variant of PS5 console has been posted by Austin Evans earlier this month.

[Austin Evans] The caller PS5 is BETTER 😬 (949,339 views)

The plan and specifications of Oberon Plus are identical to the 7nm variant, nevertheless the spot is smaller, astir 260 mm² compared to the archetypal 300 mm². These changes mean that the console requires little powerfulness and little demanding cooling solution.

For AMD and Sony, this besides means that much chips tin beryllium made with 1 wafer, truthful the estimated accumulation outgo of the updated console could beryllium up to 12% lower. Microsoft Xbox Series, which are besides based connected 7nm AMD SoC, are to beryllium updated with 6nm designs successful the aboriginal arsenic well.

Source: Angstronomics