PS5 Uses Much Less Power Than PS4 Pro

Can’t say I’ve ever cared how much power a console used. It’s too low to matter really. I guess it’s good to know, theoretically.

Good to know. I might have a great energy plan but I am conscious about how much I use both out of concern for my bill and the environment.

@AJDarkstar Thats a lot for something that you are not using.😬

Less mako energy use nice! Avalanche approves this

I used rest mode the first 2 years of my PS4 but starting just turning it off. The only time my PS4 Pro was in rest mode is when I hit the wrong command to turn it off.

@JohnKarnes
I'm the opposite haha
I used to carefully turn it off everytime the first year but then I always leave it in rest mode or even let it do that on it's own.
Nearly 7 years old condole now. I hope PS5 is just as reliable.

I just did the rough maths, if you were to leave your PS5 in rest mode for a whole year, you'd pay less than £2 (in the UK).

That's good, I usually turn off my console when I'm done playing games but when I download games I use hibernate function.

I will make mine use more power just to piss off greta thunberg.

@Cheems yeah stupid girl who wants to preserve our environment for future generations. That’ll show her

Well if this thing goes full speed highly doubt it.

@Mergatro1d
She isn’t stupid, just hyper focused on one aspect in isolation and incapable of looking at things in the longer term or assessing the damage of what she proposes. Probably not getting the most unbiased advice either.

@thefourfoldroot She's far from stupid; I was being sarcastic

@Mergatro1d
That’s what I said. She’s just misinformed and extremely focused in one aspect in isolation. A shame. Urgent action is needed when it comes to developing technology and procedures to help mitigate the damage of the inevitable and catastrophic (for humans) rapid cooling of the Earth, which is a much bigger issue. Currently the only thing we’ll be able to do about it is reverse her plans and pump huge quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Billions will still die.
But perhaps this isn’t the place to discuss either the incontrovertible human accelerated warming of the Earth or the incontrovertible process of the glacial/interglacial cycle and the far greater number of human deaths and species extinctions that will cause.

I don't care that much but it's good to hear that they are doing this

I'm gonna put diesel in my PS5 so I can play games at 180fps.

Of course it's going to be using less power, it's got a SSD not a mech HDD it's got a zen 2 8 core 7nm CPU most probably equivalent to a Ryzen 3600 but custom built for what the ps5 needs. The PS4 pro has 2x 4 core CPU that's in theory bolted together to act like an 8 core so it had 2 chips needing it's own power but ps5 has one unified 8 core chip. Which will also run cooler as it will be have better architecture as the Zen 2 architecture is 6x faster than PS4 pro Jaguar architecture

@JJ2 My PS4 Pro is not the primary in my household. There is no reason to leave it in rest mode. Also I am not a proponent on climate change. I agree on the reliability of PlayStation brand I still own every console PS1-PS4 Pro. I had to replace my PS2 with a PS2 slim. Only because I was at fault for it breaking.