Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: ps3, slim, power, efficient, advertised | Themes: Home Theater, Digital Entertainment
34 percent better? Even better, if you're comparing to one of the original launch PS3s.
During the PS3 Slim's reveal, Sony boasted that the new hardware with its 45-nm Cell Broadband Engine CPU used 34 percent less power than the outgoing hardware.
CNet Crave did its own testing and found that the 34 percent claim is hugely conservative. Against an original launch 60 GB PlayStation 3, the new PS3 Slim uses 70 percent less power while in standby mode. While playing a game or movie, the new PS3 Slim uses less than half as much power.
Of course, the original launch unit featured chips built on the 90-nm process, along with the need to power both the Emotion Engine and Graphics Synthesizer for the hardware backwards compatibility and the flash card readers.
What's missing from the test is to see how the new PS3 Slim compares to the 65-nm version of the PlayStation 3, which could reveal where Sony got its 34 percent figure.
As much improved the PS3 Slim is in terms of power usage, it still pales in comparison to standalone Blu-ray Disc players, which use nearly a quarter of the power as the newer console.
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Stand alone BD players cost ~ the same AND they can't play games
calculators use less then 1/100th the power of a laptop, but that means nothing does it? my point, don't compare the ps3 to a blu-ray player, no one ever did the same with the ps2 and a dvd player did they?
Awesome, maybe I can afford to turn on my fridge this month! Seriously though, I have noticed a huge increase in my electricity bill since I got my PS3 in dec 2006
In Blu-Ray players, DSPs are doing all the the processing, in the PS3 it's the Cell processor. I think it's fairly obvious that a gaming device will always consume more than a video rending device.
Awesome, maybe I can afford to turn on my fridge this month! Seriously though, I have noticed a huge increase in my electricity bill since I got my PS3 in dec 2006
The thing is when you consider 25 000 000 devices saving, let's say, 80W, in the end we are talking about 2 000 MW of saving... that's a lot of power.
34% under the previous build, of course it'll be even better than the original
So does this mean that the Ps3 slim is considers a green machine?
I thought it was widely known that the 2nd gen one (the one missing backwards compatibility) used alot less power than the original.
Awesome, maybe I can afford to turn on my fridge this month! Seriously though, I have noticed a huge increase in my electricity bill since I got my PS3 in dec 2006
wtf? were you like not using a computer? or a tv? or lights? before you got your ps3? it should only use the same amount of power as 2 or 3 light bulbs.
however this is why i never left mine on 24/7 doing folding@home, if you did that you would certainly notice the difference
Yeah that's nice and all, but how about you start putting out some more good games to get people buy the System Sony!!!!!
So does this mean that the Ps3 slim is considers a green machine?
Video games are never green machines you want to go green go play outside
calculators use less then 1/100th the power of a laptop, but that means nothing does it? my point, don't compare the ps3 to a blu-ray player, no one ever did the same with the ps2 and a dvd player did they?
Yeah they did. All the time. That was a selling point of the device, it doubled as a DVD player. It was a MAJOR selling point.
let me just removed a lot of coll features that the original had and then the second version, oh and wait now a third version with even less features then when it first came out with. of course let me just remove the backwards ps2 compatibly hardware, less 5 to 10 watts, let me just remove 2 usb ports on it to limit it to 2 instead of 4, oh wait the card reader that it had, remove that too, oh and wait the operating simulator for Linux to be install on it. remove that too. so now this awesome machine is a less of a less of a less of a ps3 the ultimate gaming console suppose to be when it first came out... well now that I have remove lots of hardware in it, it is now more efficient. it is like a car, remove that air conditioner belt, oh this car is now more fuel efficient. remove the power steering belt too. wow I am now getting even more fuel efficiency out of my car. wait lets remove that big 8 cylinder and install a 6 cylinder. wow I am getting lots out of the same car. daa less weight...
the less and the less hardware it has the less power it will consume and of course their will always be new cpu and gpu manufacture to consume less power and to be more efficient. good old 454ss block vs my 3 cylinder smart car. hmmm 500hp vs 70 hp. wow I am saving 400 to 600 dollars of gas a month now with this small car that is only costing me 100 a month to roll around town. lets see how this faces a suv in a crash. hmm well anyways off topic. you get my drift. 5 ton car vs a not even a 1.5 ton car. well enough said .
the new ps3 is less of a less of a less of the original ps3. power electricity is like 5.6 per kilowatts here so I am going to toss my good old fatty ps3 to save on power. hell no what a wasteful society we live in. oh ya... consume consume consume, fast food fast food. that is our life now a days. the faster it is the better really??? not. enjoy life take care. take my advice keep or buy the good old fatty since you are getting more bucks out of it for your bang.
enjoy life my friends
Yeah because I need four USB ports on my PS3. That is more than most laptops. I don't need any card readers because, once again,it is a PS3. I also have no use for the emotion engine or the graphics engine as I bought a PS3 to play PS3 games not 9 year old PS2 games.
So how many Wats does the PS3 slim consume on average?34% less than the original but how many Wats did the original PS3 consume?
It's all rubbish if they're stripping out USEFUL features like the PS2 emotion engine, card reader, etc... just to add a little extra hard drive space and drop a little weight from the machine. Better to think of the PS3 as more of an entertainment system rather than merely a video game system with all it really can do. That's all added value!
If I get a PS3 at all, I'm getting the original 60 GB on ebay somewhere, and if I need more hard drive space, I'll install a 256 GB SSD for REAL speed.
calculators use less then 1/100th the power of a laptop, but that means nothing does it? my point, don't compare the ps3 to a blu-ray player, no one ever did the same with the ps2 and a dvd player did they?
People buy PS3 to servly only as a Blue-Ray player, so it's a valid point.
I read in a Tomshardware article back in the early days of the PS3 that it consumes 300W when active and a few 10's of Watts when powered off.
Launch PS3>Slim PS3.
Wow!, comparing the PS3 to a standalone BR player...LOL! BR players are still expensive when compared to the PS3's multiple functionality. Standalone BR players only have one compatibility they can play regular DVD's and no other format (maybe some can play mp3's). The PS3 on the other hand can play games, DVD's, mp3's, avi's, etc. And also have 5.1DD audio, and HDMI for the same price if not cheaper.
Who gives a cr** about PS3 efficiency? People want new games that show the potentials of these blabla chips not another stupid eco-green campaign.
Mine is the only blue ray device in my house, so playing blue ray movies is important to me. It still is a gaming machine first.
I hate sony. and I know that i will get flamed, but I get tired of all the proprietary stuff. Blueray, umd, cell processor, memory stick. How many have lasted. I would have rather have seen sony make just a gaming console. I just want to game. I couldnt care less about blu ray, It could have been hd dvd or blu ray. I dont care I just want games. And I am not getting as many with the ps3 as i did for the ps2. And yes that makes backwards compatibiliy a huge issue. I want to play good ps2 games since the there arnt that many for the ps3. Sony quit making it hard, just let me game.
PS3 still displays a better BD picture than all but the most high end BD players, and upscales DVDs to high def better than any upscaling standalone player I've seen.
To me, that's worth a few extra watts.
If your so crazy about backwards compatibility why not get a refurbished 60 gig from gamestop.com If you cant afford the electric bill you shouldn't be buying games... LOL!
People seem to be thinking sony purposely tried to lower power consumption, this is not the case. sony was trying to cut costs, because everybody has been complaining the ps3 is too expensive since its launch. the easiest way to do this was to move to a smaller manufacturing process for its chips, it does this with every console it makes to cut costs and to make their console "more attractive". since the ps3 now uses a 45nm cpu and 65nm gpu(vs 90nm cpu and gpu) it uses way less power, but more importantly, it costs nearly half as much to make. the lower power consumption was a very positive side effect, but not a priority. please don't bash sony for making their product cheaper, more power efficient, quieter, and lighter, just because your mad you sold your ps2 for $20 and can't play your ps2 games anymore; if your ps2 games mean that much, you should have kept your ps2.
another thing people forget is that when a chip uses less power, it also produces less heat. since the ps3 uses less then half of the energy the launch 60gb model used, the heatsinks and power supply can be smaller, also saving considerable money. those huge aluminum heatsinks in the ps3 are heavy and expansive.
all this crap about why they put in a bluray player, that they just want a games system.
well the simple trueth is where consoles are concerned mainly, is that games are getting bigger, and the only type of disk that is capable of storing this amount of information is a bluray disk.
i think i would rather have a slightly slower drive than having to change the disk over a couple a times a day.
i dont care what people think, i am happy with the large 80gb system, the new slim is a nice system also but i didnt pay for mine and also i have to pay stupid money for the games, so the slim will have to wait.
but he fact that it uses a lot less power than the other 2 breeds is a bonus, as since getting the ps3 and new 42" lcd screen, i have noticed a 50% increase in my elecy bill, and that is just a tad rediculas
It is quite a bit smaller, and quieter, it still dumps a large amount of hot air out the back, not sure how hot the 'fat' ran, but if its been designed to operate at that heat then it shouldn't be a problem.
The thing is when you consider 25 000 000 devices saving, let's say, 80W, in the end we are talking about 2 000 MW of saving... that's a lot of power.
Next month well see a power company sueing Sony for taking business away.
How in the hell can they write an article like this without giving us any real information. All that mummbo jumbo and not a realworld number to be seen. Before they printed this article they needed to get the different model PS3's and then plug them in and test them to get real power numbers, not just manfacturer numbers. Horrible article.
Man shoot, bluray player right here for 99 bucks.
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