Oct 08, 2020 10:27:00

Official release of disassembled video of 'PlayStation 5 (PS5)'

A video of disassembling ' PlayStation 5 (PS5) ', which was decided to be

released on November 12, 2020, has been released on the official PlayStation YouTube channel. It is a movie that shows a lot of ingenuity that has never been seen before, such as a cooling structure that uses liquid metal and a dust catcher that can suck dust with a vacuum cleaner.

PlayStation®5 Disassembled Video-YouTube


At the beginning of the movie, there is a note saying 'Please do not disassemble or modify. It may cause fire, electric shock, or injury. If there are traces of disassembly / modification, repair / replacement may be refused.' It shows.

That's why it is Mr. Yasuhiro Otori who is the section chief of SIE 1st Division, Design Department, 5th Division to disassemble PS5 into pieces.

The size is 104 mm wide x 390 mm high x 240 mm deep, which is one size larger than the PS4. With this size increase, it is said that a dramatic improvement in performance has been realized in terms of processing capacity and consistency.

USB Type-A port x 1, USB Type-C port x 1 on the front

USB Type-A port x 2 on the back

LAN port x 1, HDMI port x 1, power port

The part between the main body and the white panel when viewed from the front is an intake hole ...

Almost the entire back surface is an exhaust hole.

Next, remove the pedestal part for standing the PS5.

The pedestal part is fixed with a coin screw.

It looks like this when removed.

The coin screw used to fix the pedestal part can be stored in the following recessed part.

A cap is stored in the part where the coin screw is stored, and it is also possible to put this on the screw hole part on the bottom.

After storing the coin screw, you can hide the storage part by turning the pedestal part.

When placing the PS5 horizontally, attach the pedestal as shown below to the part where the symbol used for the PlayStation button called ○ × △ □ is engraved inside the white panel.

Then, it can be placed horizontally like this.

The white panel that covers the main unit can be removed by the user. While lifting the corner on the back side of the main body, slide toward the bottom (to the right of the image below).

Then you can easily remove it like this.

The silver circular parts are cooling fans that can draw in a large amount of air from both sides.

The two holes pointed by your fingers are dust catchers, and the dust accumulated here can be sucked up with a vacuum cleaner. It seems that preparing two dust catchers is a measure against heat. Equipped with a large fan and heat sink, liquid metal is used for TIM, and consideration is given to heat dissipation everywhere, such as widening the space between parts, so it is thought that the accumulation of dust will be a fatal injury to PS5. Can be done.

In addition, it is equipped with a PCIe 4.0 compatible M.2 interface for future expansion storage. In PS4, it was necessary to 'replace' the storage, but in PS5, it is enough to 'expand'.

So, from here to the full-scale PS5 disassembly part. First, remove the

'Peel off invalid' seal . If you remove this sticker, it will be out of the repair warranty, but overseas, there is a movement to permanently recognize the 'right to repair' all equipment at the legal level , and in consideration of such a situation PlayStation officially seems to show how to disassemble PS5 into pieces.

I will remove the parts.

Remove the screws ...

When you remove the cover ...

It is possible to remove a large double-sided intake fan with a diameter of 120 mm and a thickness of 45 mm.

Then remove the screws ...

Remove the case.

This is an Ultra HD Blu-ray drive unit that is only available on optical drive models.

The drive unit is covered with a sheet metal case and mounted with a double insulator to reduce the driving noise and vibration when the disc rotates.

Remove the cable that connects to the Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1 antennas ...

Remove the silver panel.

Finally the foundation is revealed.

Remove the screws ...

Remove the double cover ……

Remove the entire board.

AMD's Ryzen Zen 2 CPU is 8 cores, 16 threads and drives at a maximum of 3.5 GHz.

The GPU is AMD Radeon, which drives at a maximum of 2.23GHz and achieves 10.3 TFLOPS.

GDDR6 16GB memory is arranged in a circle

In the center is a custom SSD controller, and the three black boards (three on the front and three on the back) around it are SSDs (825GB). The loading speed is as high as 5.5GB per second, which is the transfer speed of raw data, which has led to a significant reduction in game loading time. It can be inferred that the reason for not using standards such as PCIe is to use a custom controller to increase the bandwidth and finish it cheaply.

Since the PS5 SoC operates a small die with a very high clock, the heat density of the silicon die becomes very high, and a heat conductive material called 'TIM (

Thermal interface material )' sandwiched between the SoC and the heat sink. It seems that it was necessary to significantly improve the performance of.

The PS5 uses liquid metal for the TIM to achieve stable cooling performance over the long term. Silicone grease is used for home-built PCs. It seems that the PS5 development team has been preparing for the adoption of liquid metal for more than two years, and has conducted all possible tests and has reached the adoption of liquid metal.

Then I removed it ...

heatsink. The heat sink uses a heat pipe like PS3 and PS4, but it is said that it has achieved the same performance as the vapor chamber by devising the shape and air flow.

Power supply unit rated at 350W

Finally, remove the front part of PS5, and the disassembly is completed.