PS5 Will be More Energy Efficient Than PS4 - Sony Entertainment CEO - Android

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Sony has plans to make its next-gen console, the Playstation 5, more energy-efficient so it won’t use as much energy as the Playstation 4.

Jim Ryan, CEO and President of Sony Interactive Entertainment, wrote in a blog post that the company is committed to making its gaming products more environmentally friendly, starting with a power-efficient sleep mode for Playstation 5.

To reduce its power consumption, it will be utilizing efficient technologies such as an integrated System On Chip, which will be equipped with a high-performance graphics processor, a smaller die size, power scaling, as well as energy-saving modes.

One of the energy-saving modes will be the suspend-to-RAM mode, letting users suspend the gameplay on their device with much less power consumption than the PS4, at around 0.5W.

Ryan says,

If just one million users enable this feature, it would save equivalent to the average electricity use of 1000 US homes

Additionally, Sony is also looking into the carbon footprint of its other services and assessing energy efficiency measures at its data centers.

For context, we estimate the carbon emissions we have avoided to date already amount to almost 16m metric tons, increasing to 29m metric tons over the course of the next 10 years (which equals the CO2 emissions for the nation of Denmark in 2017).

There’s no word on a release date for the PS5 yet. What we do know is that other than being more energy-efficient than the PS4, it will also be more powerful with an all-new AMD CPU and a custom GPU. It will also feature backward compatibility and faster loading times thanks to SSD-based storage.

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