PlayStation 5 SoC Smiles for the Camera

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Image: Fritzchens Fritz



Berlin-based hardware photographer Fritzchens Fritz, who’s best known for his macro shots of silicon, has shared a handful of images that reveal what the Sony PlayStation 5’s system-on-a-chip looks like up close. The shots appear to be confirm that the console lacks Infinity Cache, which AMD introduced as part of its RNDA 2 graphics architecture to enable higher levels of power-efficient performance. This can be determined by the fact that the caches are clearly separate.



A first quick and dirty die-shot of the PS5 APU (better SWIR image will follow). It looks like some Zen 2 FPU parts are missing. pic.twitter.com/PefXCxc3G1— Fritzchens Fritz (@FritzchensFritz)...

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