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PS5 heat test (with a thermal camera)
We fire up Sony’s next-gen Playstation 5 and point a thermal imaging camera at it to see just how toasty it gets during gameplay. You can purchase PS5 here… Best Buy: Amazon: *CNET may get a commission from these offers. You can buy Cat S62 Pro here… Amazon (unlocked): *CNET may get a commission from…
Michael Pavia
November 21, 2020 at 3:02 pm
This test is so flawed!!! No stand installed and the back of the console is right up against the wall. Sony says to keep at least 4inches clearance.
Garfield Jenkins Jr
November 21, 2020 at 3:02 pm
This is a video I didn’t know i needed 👍🏾
Mjltech
November 21, 2020 at 3:04 pm
I’ll be the first to say I’m impressed. The dude didn’t put it on the stand (there are vents underneath the console that can’t get airflow when set down without the stand) and he put the damn thing up against the wall, effectively blocking the intake and some of the exhaust vents. And yet it was still sitting under 40C. Great job sony.
Mitchell Abercrombie
November 21, 2020 at 3:10 pm
1) The stand provides increased circulation. Not using it will increase heating issues
2) You have it literally touching your back wall, that heat is going to rebound right back
Conclusion: Can afford a thermal imaging camera, does not know how heat works
campkira
November 21, 2020 at 9:42 pm
the whole pont is the see wherre the heat go…
Mitchell Abercrombie
November 21, 2020 at 9:54 pm
@campkira Imagine if he was testing how far a car could go on a full tank of fuel, but before he set toff he removed two of the wheels, and then came back and said “This car doesn’t have good mileage”
ShonMoore
November 21, 2020 at 3:36 pm
Yea, this was weird
Kinoko C
November 21, 2020 at 3:48 pm
Next time, please do a xbox series x heat test, but cover the exhaustion vent on the top. Then we can compare to this video and learn nothing.
kev joe
November 21, 2020 at 6:08 pm
Lol
blitz krieg
November 21, 2020 at 4:01 pm
Wast of time without the comparable games….news flash
Gëneviéve Powell
November 21, 2020 at 4:01 pm
This is how many times he said demanding
👇
LORDE 2729
November 21, 2020 at 4:38 pm
wait for the mid gen upgrade. its usually slimmer and better
NASTY KAMALEON
November 21, 2020 at 5:02 pm
Its a nuclear reaktor ?
Bernard Wei
November 21, 2020 at 5:23 pm
Please correct the test with the stand installed and provide clearance for air flow around the PS5 especially at the back of the console. Never mind, I saw you do leave a bit more clearance for the PS5 in part of the video, but do install the stand so the bottom can be cooler.
dwisecup51
November 21, 2020 at 5:30 pm
If you are going to do a test do it as the manufacturer advises.
SweetCherryGrower
November 21, 2020 at 5:31 pm
You have block the air flow …what are you doing…make this video again
SweetCherryGrower
November 21, 2020 at 5:37 pm
Or re make xbox video with a book on it…. is this cnet or what?
Allen John
November 21, 2020 at 5:38 pm
Not an optimal test scenario where the base is not even fixed.
Scotti Pimpin
November 21, 2020 at 5:41 pm
I can confirm that the PS5 stays cool but it does put out alot of heat as if it were a small heater
Aayush Codes
November 21, 2020 at 6:14 pm
Worst fail ever; I am from Canada and our room temp doesn’t go below 21, this guy is cooling his room on purpose to decrease the ambient room temp, which will end up cooling the device.
BUMMER
Joy Boy
November 22, 2020 at 10:20 am
The dude has the PS5 suffocated in the back. The rear is nearly against the wall so it barely has any room to vent the hot air and the stand is missing which blocks the bottom vents. And it still stayed under 40 C. Increasing the room temp would at worse increase the temp by a few to several degrees if the fans don’t spin faster. It’s got a temp sensor so it’ll likely spin faster to keep the temp down.
MAD-GFX | Fahran1979
November 21, 2020 at 7:17 pm
How not to review temps 101:
– leave off the stand reducing airflow
– place unit flush against wall to block airflow
The heat in thermal view on the wall was 👌
saqued
November 21, 2020 at 7:58 pm
Stop the BS and use the stand for a proper review. Just lazy!🤦🏾♂️
Cross
November 21, 2020 at 8:01 pm
taking the temperature of the console like this is kinda stupid…the ps5 has those white fins over the console….u should of removed the fins to get a more accurate reading it would be a better comparison to the Xbox. not only that the Xbox u literally was filming the exhaust vent while in this one ur not???
MJP
November 21, 2020 at 8:35 pm
what a pointless exercise……
Eng09
November 21, 2020 at 8:48 pm
Your PS5 is to close to the wall
Tanish Patki
November 21, 2020 at 9:05 pm
Other than the stand and the wall, why is the room at 14°C? Id be very uncomfortable.
Saleh Al-Ghamdi
November 21, 2020 at 10:49 pm
Do you know if PS5 has one speed fan or 2x speed fan?
Vince L
November 22, 2020 at 2:40 am
34C on the outer case, plus the cold 14C room temperature, can mean huge heat over 70C inside the cooling system. That means the console could runs really hot.
Like the situation of an AMD GPU playing COD in our PC, which is hot
unwrapping by mimi koteng
November 22, 2020 at 9:21 am
Why you do this? So irritating and irrelevant experiment.
Jason
November 22, 2020 at 12:17 pm
Me: “Hahaha this amateur YouTuber doesn’t know how to test thermals properly lol … Oh hold on, is this a video from CNET? Don’t they have full-time workers…?”
RiskOfBaer
November 23, 2020 at 2:08 pm
So far I’ve seen only a single channel that actually tested the thermals. Pointing a heat camera at the case doesn’t test anything useful, unless you care about how hot the plastic gets for some reason.
Erik Fry
November 23, 2020 at 8:21 pm
@RiskOfBaer are you referring to gamersnexus?
Ahmed Syed
November 22, 2020 at 1:47 pm
Fire the person who hired this guy.
Ura Nium
November 22, 2020 at 2:39 pm
Sorry to disappoint guys but Looking at the outer case isn’t going to tell you much about its heat dissipation characteristics. Every console has different way to disperse its heat.
ramdam974
November 22, 2020 at 2:46 pm
Generally in the electronic design we consider the default room temperature at 25°C. You should try to make your next test at this room temperature if you can.
Ki Ky
November 22, 2020 at 4:14 pm
People ‘venting’ about the positioning, I guess thats how most non-tech conscious people will place it, without the stand next to the tv & wall so it’s not a bad test from the reviewer.
There’s this other major tech YouTuber – MKBHD, he similarly reviewed it deliberately without the stand.
hababacon
November 22, 2020 at 5:01 pm
Dude I think both systems were design well to expel heat. They run quiet and 55-70c is nothing to right home about considering the components. Most of next gen consoles issues are software related with a few issues here there related to BR drive, or fans not spinning. All relativity low, maybe in the hundreds when they’re millions of consoles out already. With that said maybe they should have delayed the consoles as they’re software is just not up to snuff yet. We have games crashes on both consoles, we have missing HDMI features from resolutions to FPS. There’s storage limitation, storage problem making users factory reset their consoles, quick resume crashes or missing quick resume rather than issues with heat and noise.
Remix 26
November 22, 2020 at 8:23 pm
I’d like to see a video with this done with the stand on, some space between the wall and also a comparison with it in horizontal mode. I’m wondering about vertical vs horizontal on the new consoles.
F.J Tabb
November 22, 2020 at 8:40 pm
Dude are you trying to make it run hot? You lost all credibility when I saw it not on the stand and literally push all the way up against the wall where the heat exits.
Michael Shandor
November 22, 2020 at 9:08 pm
Would be cooler if you had stand on it and not pushed against the wall. Maybe you can fix that next time.
ChicagoBulls1984
November 23, 2020 at 4:30 am
“All the heat is at the bottom and at the back by the wall” Gee I wonder why???!!!
ChicagoBulls1984
November 23, 2020 at 4:39 am
This review might be the worst thing to happen in 2020…
Thomas Carlier
November 23, 2020 at 10:42 am
Gamernexus made a proper thermals review
Sarfaraz Shaikh
November 23, 2020 at 1:04 pm
This ppl are always gonna love what is made in America like there technology and not other’s…..like apple, microsoft n’ll…..same thing they do when an iPhone comes out and bash other manufacturers for not doing nothing and same here to ps5…….no one is asking them to make all this stupid video’s on the first place…… before all this social media ppl still use to buy this kind of stuff by there own but now day’s it’s just become like they are the one who is gonna tell you what to buy and what not too…….
RiskOfBaer
November 23, 2020 at 2:07 pm
Even if the test was done properly, none of this matters. If anything, it shows that the PS5 is not very good at dissipating heat which is not a good thing at all. The Xbox being hotter on the outside is actually a good thing, it means it’s better at getting the heat OUT of the case, which is the entire point of cooling. If you want to test thermals, test the insides, not the outside.
cody Coop
November 23, 2020 at 5:45 pm
This is the most pointless test. This says nothing about the internal temp of the circuitry that matter.
Mini Bike Madness
November 24, 2020 at 2:14 am
I wonder how hot the PS5 console will get with it 90 or 100 degrees Fahrenheit in my house during summer?
M.I Smith
November 24, 2020 at 5:02 pm
Next time just use a tape to block the airflow in the back and below, it’s much faster that way 😆.
Diego
November 25, 2020 at 7:03 am
Zero proffesional
Leandro Serrat
November 25, 2020 at 12:09 pm
hahaha thermography 101 BS
V No Cappuccino R
November 25, 2020 at 7:58 pm
No stand for the console but still uploaded this video to cause people to assume it has issues??
Big Dislike
Ghazi Naeem
November 26, 2020 at 6:13 am
When I play AC Valhalla it get so hot i cant touch the adaptor for the headset.
Crazy_killer 1112
November 26, 2020 at 9:05 pm
If you use the stand not against the wall its much better
nabeel salam
November 27, 2020 at 2:21 am
putting a console up against a wall without its stand…unprofessional is an understatement
Ramin hAm
November 27, 2020 at 8:48 am
Wow. I didn’t know cnet hire stupid people
Aditya Pambayun
November 27, 2020 at 12:10 pm
My laptop hits 90 degree celcius, and im fine with it
Huey Freeman
November 27, 2020 at 3:42 pm
Your laptop will not last long. That’s way too hot dude.
Ashwin Krishna
November 27, 2020 at 2:02 pm
35 degrees , he said which isn’t bad,
Wtf thats awesome
PythonPlusPlus
November 27, 2020 at 2:37 pm
Why do people keep complaining about the stand? The stand doesn’t increase circulation, it just helps the console balance better so you don’t accidentally knock it over.
XBeasT
November 27, 2020 at 10:47 pm
Triggered a lot of fanboys. This is not science man who cares.
Chris Morrison
November 28, 2020 at 12:40 am
Correction. The series x was playing backwards compatible games that are much easier to run than current gen games because of lower graphical fidelity and texture detail than the games that where running on the ps5. Seriously if you wanna say a game from previous gen is more demanding than an open world game with ray tracing then your bias is in question.
Also you know the air that cools the power supply unit comes out the bottom right, so you should really stick it on the stand.