In recent days, the online community in general and gamers in particular have been buzzing about the news that the PS5 has been successfully hacked to become a “cryptocurrency mining machine”. However, after verification, it can be confirmed that this information is just a joke and the security of the PS5 is still absolute.
If you pay attention to the photo that is said to show the hacked PS5 for cryptocurrency mining, you will notice a QR code in the top left corner. When this QR code is scanned, we receive a message in Chinese stating “there is no such software”.
According to analysis from the renowned site Hardware Times, using the PS5’s hardware for cryptocurrency mining at a capacity of 98 MH/s is completely unreasonable. With the AMD Radeon GPU featuring RDNA 2 architecture (ray tracing; up to 2.23 GHz, 10.3 teraflops), even if the PS5 were truly hacked, it would only operate at a capacity of 60 MH/s. Moreover, the PS5’s GPU is not equipped with the “AMD Infinity Cache” feature, which makes it extremely difficult to mine Ethereum effectively at this time.
Thus, it can be concluded that this is just a fun joke by the online community in China. In reality, the PS5 cannot be hacked for cryptocurrency mining at this time.