It is starting to be rolled out around the world. The new 1202 version of the PlayStation 5 not only offers a significant drop in weight, but also in power consumption.
If it began to be deployed around the world from mid-September, the PlayStation 5 version 1202 could first be tested by Australian players from the beginning of the month. It was at this time that the new technical specifications appeared publicly, and we now know even more about this version that we could call “light”.
200g less
CFI-1202. This is not the scientific name of the new exoplanet discovered 200 light years from us, but the name of the new versions of la PlayStation 5 which are beginning to be sold around the world. The very first version of Sony’s console, released in 2020, was modeled as CFI-1000, then in 2021 it switched to CFI-1100. With each new iteration, modifications are made, and this time the machine has changed in depth.
If the PlayStation 5 Standard and the Digital Edition weighed, at the exit, respectively 4.5 and 3.9 kg, they now weigh only 3.7 and 3.3 kg according to the American tech youtuber Austin Evans who was able to weigh the Digital Edition model. About 600 g lost in just two years thanks to major changes to the (smaller) motherboard, you SSD and, above all, on the smaller system on chip (SoC) which makes it possible to lower both the energy consumption of the console but also its manufacturing cost.
An upper console
Yes, this PlayStation 5 version CFI-1202 is much superior to its big sisters according to the various reports released in recent days and in particular via le site Angstronomics. The Japanese manufacturer has moved from the 7 nm AMD Oberon SoC used on its previous machines to an Oberon Plus SoC engraved in 6 nm, increasing its surface area from 300 mm² to 260 mm². Significant changes are brought by this new SoC.
First of all, the machine consumes less energy, as Austin Evans shows in his video. It would now only consume around 201W, compared to 217W for the 1000 version and 229W for the 1100 version last year. After some measurements, it was also established that the console now has better heat dissipation. This is ejected over a large part of the back of the machine, thus limiting the number of small overheated areas and therefore the risk of wear.
In short, at equivalent performance, this PlayStation 5 version CFI-1202 consumes less, heats less and costs less to produce in general. Something that we will unfortunately not yet notice on the European market, the price of the console from Sony increased by 50 euros during summer.