4Gamer recently conducted an interview with the VP of mechanical design at Sony Interactive Entertainment's hardware design division, Yasuhiro Ootori (via Eurogamer). During the Q&A, it was revealed that Sony intends to optimize how the PS5 cooler works through online updates.
Sony did not make the changes to the behavior of the cooler before releasing its next-gen console because, according to Yasuhiro, it is necessary to have APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) health data for each game. Yasuhiro says:
"Multiple games will be released in the future and data on APU behavior in each game will be collected. We have a plan to optimize cooler control based on this data."
Recently the Playstation 5 was dismantled by a Sony employee and the video revealed the 120mm in diameter and 45mm in depth cooler. For the cooler to work, the console uses a temperature sensor inside the APU, in addition to relying on data from 3 more temperature sensors located on the main board. Through the temperatures measured in each game, Sony intends to generate specific behavior of the PS5's cooler for each title.
Through custom settings for the operation of the online update cooler, Sony intends to make the PS5 run games without heating up too much and at the same time trying not to generate too much noise. After all, Sony designed the Playstation 5 to make it silent.
Sony has studied the PS5's cooling system in detail
Throughout the interview, Yasuhiro Ootori also said that Sony conducted tests using a translucent version of the PS5 with dry ice. In this way, engineers were able to observe the behavior of smoke generated by dry ice and at the same time analyze the temperatures in each part of the system, thus facilitating improvements in cooling.
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