Comparison of PlayStation consoles
Appearance
2013–present
Model | PlayStation 4 | PlayStation 4 Slim | PlayStation 4 Pro | PlayStation Classic | PlayStation 5 | PlayStation 5 Digital Edition | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Image | ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() | |
Key dates | First released | November 2013 | September 2016 | November 2016 | December 2018 | November 2020 | |
Discontinued | September 2016 | In production | January 2021 | In production | |||
Dimensions (WxHxD) | 275 mm × 53 mm × 305 mm (10.8 in × 2.1 in × 12.0 in) | 265 mm × 39 mm × 288 mm (10.4 in × 1.5 in × 11.3 in) | 295 mm × 55 mm × 327 mm (11.6 in × 2.2 in × 12.9 in) | 149 mm × 33 mm × 105 mm (5.9 in × 1.3 in × 4.1 in) | 390 mm × 104 mm × 260 mm (15.4 in × 4.1 in × 10.2 in) | 390 mm × 92 mm × 260 mm (15.4 in × 3.6 in × 10.2 in) | |
Weight | 2.5–2.8 kg (5.5–6.2 lb) | 2.1 kg (4.6 lb) | 3.3 kg (7.3 lb) | 170 g (6.0 oz) | 3.9–4.5 kg (8.6–9.9 lb) | 3.4–3.9 kg (7.5–8.6 lb) | |
Storage | Capacity | 500 GB or 1 TB | 1 TB | 1 TB or 2 TB | 16 GB | 825 GB | |
Type | HDD | eMMC Flash | SSD | ||||
Bandwidth | 50-100 MB/s | 132 MB/s | 5.5 GB/s | ||||
Optical drive | Yes | No | Yes | No | |||
CPU | Cores | 8 | 4 | 8 | |||
Threads | 8 | 4 | 16 | ||||
Clock speed | 1.6 GHz | 2.1 GHz | 1.5 GHz | 3.5 GHz | |||
GPU | Cores | 18 | 36 | 2 | 36 | ||
Threads | ? | ? | ? | ||||
Clock speed | 800 MHz | 911 MHz | 660 MHz | 2.23 GHz | |||
Ray tracing | No | Yes | |||||
Memory | 8 GB GDDR5 | 1 GB DDR3 | 16 GB GDDR6 | ||||
Ports | 1x AUX
2x Front USB 3.0 1x HDMI 2.0a |
1x AUX
2x USB 3.1 1x HDMI 2.0a |
1x AUX
3x USB 3.1 1x HDMI 2.0b |
1x HDMI | 1x Front USB 2.0
1x Front USB-C 2x Back USB 3.1 1x HDMI 2.1 | ||
Power supply | 165 W | 310 W | 5 W | 350 W | 340 W | ||
Network | Ethernet | Gigabit Ethernet | No | Gigabit Ethernet | |||
Wi-Fi | 4 (802.11n) | 5 (802.11ac) | No | 6 (802.11ax) | |||
Bluetooth | 2.1 | 4.0 | No | 5.1 | |||
Storage
expansion |
Upgradable | Yes (up to 8 TB) | With Modifications | No | |||
Expandable | No | With Modifications | M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 (up to 4 TB) USB (up to 8 TB) | ||||
External via USB | Yes (up to 8 TB) | With Modifications | Yes (up to 8 TB and can only play PS4 and PlayStation VR games directly. PS5 games can only be stored | ||||
Sources | [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] | [1][3][4][5][6][8][10] | [1][2][3][4][11][12] | [1][13] | [1][6][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] | [1][17][18][19][20][21][22] |
1994–2006
Model | PlayStation | PlayStation 2 | PlayStation 2 Slimline | PlayStation 3 | PlayStation 3 Slim | PlayStation 3 Super Slim | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Image | ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() | |||||
Key dates | First released | December 1994 | March 2000 | October 2004 | November 2006 | September 2009 | September 2012 | ||||
Discontinued | March 2006 | October 2004 | January 2013 | October 2009 | September 2012 | May 2017 | |||||
Dimensions (WxHxD) | 275 mm × 63.5 mm × 190 mm (10.8 in × 2.5 in × 7.5 in) | 302 mm × 78 mm × 183 mm (11.9 in × 3.1 in × 7.2 in) | 231 mm × 152 mm × 28 mm (9.1 in × 6.0 in × 1.1 in) | 325 mm × 98 mm × 274 mm (12.8 in × 3.9 in × 10.8 in) | 290 mm × 65 mm × 290 mm (11.4 in × 2.6 in × 11.4 in) | 290 mm × 60 mm × 230 mm (11.4 in × 2.4 in × 9.1 in) | |||||
Weight | 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) | 2.2 kg (4.9 lb) | 900 g (1.98 lb) | 4.99 kg (11 lb) | 3.2 kg (7.1 lb) | 1.95 kg (4.3 lb) | |||||
Storage | Capacity | 128 KB | 8 MB Memory Card, 40 GB HDD | 8 MB Memory Card | 20/60/80/160 GB | 120/160/250/320 GB | 250/500 GB | ||||
Type | Memory Cards | Memory Cards, HDD | Memory Cards | HDD | |||||||
Bandwidth | — | 22-66 MB/s | — | 50-100 MB/s | |||||||
CPU | Cores | 1 | 1 two-way superscalar in-order RISC CPU core | 1 Power Processor Element (Primary), 8 Synergistic Processing Units (Secondary) | |||||||
Threads | ? | ? | ? | ||||||||
Clock speed | 33.9 MHz | 294.9 MHz | 299 MHz | 3.2 GHz | |||||||
GPU | Cores | ? | ? | ? | |||||||
Threads | ? | ? | ? | ||||||||
Clock speed | 53 MHz | 147 MHz | 550 MHz | ||||||||
Ray tracing | No | ||||||||||
Memory | 2 MB System RAM
1 MB VRAM |
32 MB System RAM
4 MB VRAM |
256 MB XDRAM
256 MB VRAM |
256 MB XDRAM
256 MB GDDR3 SDRAM |
256 MB XDR System RAM
256 MB GDDR3 VRAM | ||||||
Ports | 1x Serial I/O
1x Parallel I/O (excluding SCPH 900x) |
2x USB 1.1
1x i.LINK (excluding SCPH 5000x) |
2x USB 2.0 | 4x USB 2.0 (CECHAxx-CECHExx)
2x USB 2.0 (CECHGxx-CECHQxx) |
2x USB 2.0 | ||||||
Power supply | 15 W | 50 W | 24 W | 380 W | 250 W | 190 W | |||||
Network | Ethernet | — | Dial-up or broadband with Adapter
via PCMCIA slot (SCPH 1000x-SCPH 1800x) via Expansion Bay (SCPH 3000x-SCPH 5000x) |
Dial-up or broadband
(Built-in) |
Gigabit Ethernet | ||||||
Wi-Fi | — | — | — | 802.11b/g Wi-Fi (excluding CECHBxx) | 802.11b/g Wi-Fi | ||||||
Bluetooth | — | — | — | Bluetooth 2.0 | |||||||
Storage
expansion |
Upgradable | — | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
Expandable | Memory Cards | Memory Cards,
HDD via Expansion Bay (SCPH 3000x-SCPH 5000x only) |
Memory Cards | CECHAxx-CECHExx:
Flash memory card readers (excluding CECHBxx), USB flash drive CECHGxx-CECHQxx: USB flash drive |
USB flash drive | ||||||
External via USB | — | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
Sources | [23][1][2][3] | [1][2][3][24][25][26] | [1][2][3][25][27][28] | [1][2][3][29][30][31] | [1][2][3][30][32][33][34] | [1][2][3][35][36][37] |
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "All PlayStation Console Models & Generations Ever Released (1994-2020)". Altar of Gaming. 2019-11-18. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "PlayStation through the years". Playstation. Archived from the original on 2020-03-26. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "The Evolution of PlayStation Consoles". GameSpot. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
- ^ a b c "Tech specs". Playstation. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
- ^ a b PlayStation 4 Hardware Specs - PlayStation 4 Wiki Guide - IGN, retrieved 2020-11-14
- ^ a b c "The Road to PS5 - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
- ^ "Sony PlayStation 4 Specs". CNET. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
- ^ a b "AMD PlayStation 4 APU". www.cpu-world.com. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ^ "AMD Playstation 4 GPU Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ^ "Sony PlayStation 4 Slim Specs". CNET. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ^ PS4 vs PS4 Pro Comparison Chart - PlayStation 4 Wiki Guide - IGN, retrieved 2020-11-14
- ^ "AMD Playstation 4 Pro GPU Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ^ Orry, Tom (2018-10-29). "PlayStation Classic Release Date, Price, Full Games List and Japanese List - Pre-Order PlayStation Classic - Everything we Know". USgamer. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ^ PlayStation 5 Full Specs Revealed - IGN, 18 March 2020, retrieved 2020-11-14
- ^ Sarkar, Samit (2020-03-18). "PlayStation 5 hardware specifications revealed". Polygon. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
- ^ Andrew E. Freedman 12 November 2020 (12 November 2020). "PlayStation 5 Review: Tower of Power". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b "Sony Reveals PlayStation 5 Specs, Promises Instant Game Startup". PCMAG. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
- ^ a b Hollister, Sean (2020-09-16). "Confirmed: The PS5 is the biggest game console in modern history". The Verge. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
- ^ a b "PS5 Teardown: An up-close and personal look at the console hardware - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
- ^ a b "AMD Playstation 5 GPU Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ^ a b "PS5 Guide – How to use external drives with PlayStation 5 – TheSixthAxis". 11 November 2020. Retrieved 2020-11-29.
- ^ "PS5 specs: CPU, GPU, SSD, and more". Android Central. 2020-10-15. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
- ^ "Sony PlayStation One Specs". CNET. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
- ^ "Sony PS2 Specs". CNET. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
- ^ a b "The Sony PlayStation 2: A True Legend". Low End Mac. 2015-09-10. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
- ^ "Sony Playstation 2 GPU 250nm Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ^ "Sony Playstation 2 GPU 90nm Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ^ "Sony PlayStation 2 Slim Specs". CNET. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
- ^ Bakalar, Jeff. "Sony PlayStation 3 review: Sony PlayStation 3". CNET. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
- ^ a b "PS3 Vs. PS3 Slim". Tech Spirited. 2010-06-22. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
- ^ "NVIDIA Playstation 3 GPU 90nm Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ^ Carnoy, David. "Sony PlayStation 3 Slim (120GB) review: Sony PlayStation 3 Slim (120GB)". CNET. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
- ^ "Sony PlayStation 3 Slim Specs". CNET. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
- ^ "NVIDIA Playstation 3 GPU 40nm Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ^ Widder, Brandon (September 14, 2013). "PlayStation 3 vs. PlayStation 4: Spec Showdown". www.digitaltrends.com. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
- ^ Twitter. "Here Are the Hardware Specs for PS3". Lifewire. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
{{cite web}}
:|last=
has generic name (help) - ^ "NVIDIA Playstation 3 GPU 28nm Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 2020-11-16.