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While the PlayStation 4 Pro has been in the wild for two years now, it's been undergoing some minor hardware refinements that change how loud it is. According to a recent badysis by Digital Foundry, the noise reduction in the latest iteration of the console, currently only available as part of a Red Dead Redemption 2 bundle, makes it significantly quieter than the launch model.
We're all familiar with a lot of new hardware. In 2016, three years after the original PS4 released, Sony launched the PS4 Slim, a refinement of the original, and the PS4 Pro, a beefier version capable of doing non-native 4K and HDR and loading loading times for some games. Recently, without any fanfare from Sony, the design of the PS4 has been tweaked, resulting in the console's 7100 and 7200 series.
The 7100 series arrived in the form of the translucent PS4 Pro edition, only 50,000 of which were released worldwide in late August. Then there's the 7200 series, which arrived in October, according to Digital Foundry, exclusively in the Red Dead Redemption 2 launch PS4 Pro bundles. In its badysis, Digital Foundry discovered that both versions of the console were incrementally quieter, proclaiming the 7200 series has "night and day improvement" over the 7000 launch version.
It all comes down to heat. PS4's in general hot run. If you have a launch edition, like me, you've been able to increase the amount of time spent playing Spiderman and Assbadin's Creed Odyssey. The PS4 Pros, though more powerful, can also be more powerful than other power consumption, colors, and other slight performance boosts. What Digital Foundry was discovered with the latest 7200 series is that it actually runs even hotter, because the fans are running more slowly, and thus they make less noise.
Using some of the more graphically intense scenes from God of War as a comparison, they found that the 7200 series ran about five degrees hotter than the 7000 launch models. At the same time, the newer PS4 Pro was only registering 44 decibels when measured on the top of the console, and 48db when measured directly behind the fan, compared to 50dB and 55dB respectively on the 7000 series. Digital Foundry also pointed out that the 7200 series' peak power draw did not spike like the 7000 version, staying at a near flat 170 watts instead. As a result, there was a tendency for the fans to ramp up and down a helicopter preparing to take off.
Based on Digital Foundry's investigation, the 7200 series does not have any significant hardware. While the power supply is being replaced by the power cable, it is possible to use the cable in the PS4 Slim, the real difference seems to be just in the cooling.
I'm not much of a hardware enthusiast, and do not often find myself salivating over a number of times in a console's graphics chip, but small quality of life improvements like noise that always catch my attention. A little bit of a big deal on paper, but someone who has just gotten their hands on their PCs it's the kind of thing that would make me prioritize hunting for the 7200 series rather than settling for an older PS4 Pro.
Unfortunately, it's not yet clear when people will be able to get their hands on the outside of the existing Red Dead Redemption 2 bundles. With the holiday season quickly approaching, it's possible Sony will start shipping them on their own. The company did not immediately respond to a request by Kotaku for how on the matter. If you're in the market for a new PS4 Pro though, be sure to keep the series in mind.
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