The PS5 SoC Naked

Sony engineers long ago boasted about what the interior of the PS5 looked like, but never gave too many specific details about the processor in this console.

Now we have images that "strip" that SoC and show us in great detail.

The SoC of the PS5, naked

One of the first things Microsoft did was reveal the silicon that gave life to the Xbox Series X. In addition to showing a diagram of the SoC, it also gave a great deal of information, and that was never done by Sony with its PlayStation 5 for even three months. after its launch, so the engineer Fritzchens Fritz has shown what this chip looks like thanks to images that cover the SWIR spectrum and allow us to see what the die hides.

The images of the “die” that accompany this peculiar photographic report also show the distribution of the different components of the SoC with all its functional blocks.

In the image, taken with a special microscope that makes use of short wave infrared light (SWIR), the author also indicated these blocks to identify them.

Thus, it is possible to identify the eight cores of the PS5 processor on the left, with the 36 Compute Units in the middle of the die. You can see other important elements such as its eight GDDR6 memory interfaces. You can click on the following image to see it larger.

Compared to a traditional AMD Zen 2 APU there is no room for items like the FFU (Fixed Function Unit) or the FMA (Fused Multiply-Add) that are not useful in a console like this.

That image contrasts with the one that Microsoft did share when talking about the Soc of its Xbox Series X, which as seen in the slide has a somewhat different layout although it is also based on an AMD APU with Zen 2 architecture.

Soc Xbox Series X

Soc Xbox Series S