Hardware status

What works on each model, which kernel has it, and what is inside the console. Each row links to the component's page under Troubleshooting, where its setup and problems are described.

✅ Working · 🧪 Experimental · 🚧 Work in progress · ❌ Unsupported · BD = only on PS5 Bazzite Deck so far

Status by component

Component	Original PS5	PS5 Slim	PS5 Pro	Details
CPU, boost to 3.5 GHz	✅	✅	✅ clocks set by the console's firmware	GPU
GPU	✅ 36 CUs	✅ 36 CUs	✅ 60 CUs with the loader's firmware dump (depends on the loader and firmware version); 36 otherwise	GPU, PS5 Pro
40 CU unlock	🧪	🧪	❌	GPU
GPU recovery after a fault	✅ light reset	✅ light reset	❌ full reset doesn't recover	PS5 Pro
HDMI 1080p/1440p 60 Hz, 4K 60 Hz, audio	✅	✅	✅	Display and HDMI
1080p/1440p 120 Hz, HDR	✅ FLAVA3 chip	✅ FLAVA3 chip	✅	Display and HDMI
4K 120 Hz	🧪 FLAVA3, depends on the TV	🧪 FLAVA3, depends on the TV	🧪	Display and HDMI
VRR (HDMI VRR displays)	✅ FLAVA3, BD	✅ FLAVA3, BD	✅ BD	Display and HDMI
VERDE HDMI chip	✅ up to 1080p120, 1440p60, 4K60; no HDR or VRR	same	n/a	Display and HDMI
USB-C DisplayPort	🧪 off by default	🧪	🧪	Display and HDMI
Video decode and encode (VCN)	✅ HEVC encode with I-frames only	✅	✅	GPU
Ethernet	✅	✅	✅	Ethernet
Wi-Fi	✅ IW620, out-of-tree driver	✅ MediaTek	✅ MediaTek	Wi-Fi
Bluetooth	✅ IW620	✅ BD	✅ BD	Bluetooth
One DualSense for the PS5 OS and Linux	✅ BD	✅ BD	✅ BD	DualSense
Fan control	✅	✅	✅	Fan control
Sleep (suspend-to-idle)	✅ BD; 🚧 elsewhere	✅ BD; 🚧 elsewhere	✅ BD	PS5 Bazzite Deck
Restart straight into Linux (warm reboot)	🧪	🧪	🧪	Restart straight into Linux
USB drives, internal M.2	✅	✅	✅	Drives and USB ports
Blu-ray drive	✅	✅ (disc models)	✅ (disc drive attached)	below
Light bar, buzzer	see page	see page	see page	LED, buzzer and capture cards
HD Audio coprocessor	unknown	unknown	unknown	below

Status by kernel

"Every current kernel" means the upstream patch set, rmuxnet's kernel and PS5 Bazzite Deck; see Kernel setup for which kernel has what.

Consoles

Model	Status	Notes
Original PS5	✅ Working
PS5 Slim	✅ Working	MediaTek Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on most units, see below
PS5 Pro	✅ Working	The GPU needs its own firmware, dumped by the loader, see PS5 Pro

Processor, GPU and cooling

Component	Status	Where
AMD GPU (amdgpu, RDNA2)	✅ Working	Every kernel
CPU boost (3.5 GHz)	✅ Working	In the kernel as ps5-cpufreq (rmuxnet's kernel, PS5 Bazzite Deck through ps5-perf); ps5_control on upstream kernels, see Clocks and boost
GPU clock (up to 2.23 GHz, 2.35 GHz on the Pro)	✅ Working	A governor in every current kernel (500 to 2,230 MHz on the original PS5 and the Slim, 500 to 2,350 MHz on the Pro, 85 °C thermal limit); ps5_control on older kernels
GPU compute unit unlock (up to 40 CUs)	⚠️ Original PS5 and Slim only	Every kernel. Silicon lottery: artefacts on some consoles. Not for the Pro, see 40 CU unlock
Fan	✅ Working	A temperature curve in the kernel by default on upstream and rmuxnet's kernels, firmware control on PS5 Bazzite Deck, see Fan control

Display and audio

Component	Status	Where
HDMI video and audio: 1080p60, 1080p120, 1440p60, 4K60	✅ Working	Every kernel, every console
1440p120	✅ FLAVA3 consoles	Every current kernel
4K120 over HDMI 2.1 FRL	⚠️ FLAVA3 consoles, some TVs	Works on some TVs and falls back on others. Every current kernel; PS5 Bazzite Deck has its own 4K120 path
HDR	✅ FLAVA3 consoles	Every current kernel
VRR (HDMI VRR displays)	✅ FLAVA3 consoles	PS5 Bazzite Deck only
HDMI CEC	✅ Working	Every current kernel
USB-C DisplayPort output	⚠️ Off by default	Every current kernel, usbc_dp.enable=1
Hardware video decode (VCN)	✅ Working	Every current kernel, see Hardware video
Hardware video encode (VCN)	⚠️ H.264 only	HEVC only with I-frames

Resolutions and refresh rates are detailed on Display and HDMI.

Networking, Bluetooth and controllers

Component	Status	Where
Ethernet (mts)	✅ Working	Every kernel; full gigabit in every current kernel
Wi-Fi, Marvell IW620 (most original PS5s)	⚠️ Working, some instability	Out-of-tree driver; built into rmuxnet's kernel, the linux-ps5 package and PS5 Bazzite Deck, see Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi, MediaTek (most Slims and the Pro)	✅ Working	In-kernel drivers, every current kernel including the official one
Bluetooth, Marvell IW620	✅ Working	Quirks in every current kernel; the reconnect fixes in rmuxnet's kernel and PS5 Bazzite Deck, see Bluetooth
Bluetooth, MediaTek (Slim and Pro)	✅ Working	PS5 Bazzite Deck. rmuxnet's kernel carries a different Bluetooth patch that its author reports as broken
DualSense (USB and Bluetooth)	✅ Working	Bluetooth on every chip; one controller for the PS5 OS and Linux, see DualSense

Storage and USB

Component	Status	Notes
USB ports	✅ Working	One port on every model is USB 2.0, see Drives and USB ports
M.2 SSD	✅ Working	Not on the oldest firmware, see Install to M.2
Blu-ray drive (ahci_salina)	✅ Working	Every kernel

Power

Feature	Status	Where
Restart straight into Linux (kexec)	✅ Working	Any image, see Warm reboot
Sleep and wake (suspend-to-idle)	⚠️ Not upstream	An open pull request on rmuxnet's repository; PS5 Bazzite Deck includes it

Linux can't resume from the console's own rest mode: shutting Linux down puts the PS5 into rest mode, and the next power-up starts the PS5 OS. Suspend-to-idle sleeps and wakes without leaving Linux, and the warm restart skips the PS5 OS and the loader; both are experimental.

Problems and their workarounds are under Troubleshooting, one page per component.

Console models and chips

Linux runs on the original PS5, the PS5 Slim and the PS5 Pro. Within those models, three parts decide what works:

Part	Variants	How to check
HDMI chip	FLAVA3 (most consoles), VERDE (some later models)	sudo dmesg | grep "HDMI IC Type"
Wi-Fi/Bluetooth chip	Marvell IW620 (most original PS5s, 1b4b:2b56), MediaTek MT7961 (most Slims, 14c3:7961), MediaTek MT7925 (PS5 Pro, 14c3:7925)	lspci -nn | grep -i -e 1b4b -e 14c3
Model	PS5 or Slim, PS5 Pro (GPU 1002:13da or 1002:13dc)	lspci -nn | grep -e 1002:13da -e 1002:13dc

On PS5 Bazzite Deck, ps5-report shows all three on its first lines.

• HDMI chip: VERDE consoles don't get 1440p at 120 Hz, 4K at 120 Hz, HDR or VRR. How the chip works and why is on Display and HDMI; the feature table is on PS5 Bazzite Deck.
• Wi-Fi/Bluetooth chip: the IW620 uses the out-of-tree mwifiex port, built into rmuxnet's kernel, the linux-ps5 package and PS5 Bazzite Deck, see Wi-Fi. The MediaTek chips use the in-kernel mt7921e (Slim) and mt7925e (Pro) drivers, which every current kernel builds; their Bluetooth needs fixes that PS5 Bazzite Deck has, see Bluetooth.
• PS5 Pro: supported by the loader (see Which loader). Its GPU ("Viola") needs its own firmware, which the loader dumps on the firmware versions it has offsets for, see GPU firmware; the kernel package and PS5 Bazzite Deck stage it into the initrd at boot. The GPU has 60 active compute units, so the 40 CU unlock doesn't apply. Details on PS5 Pro.

SoC (original PS5 and Slim)

The console is built around a custom AMD APU called Oberon: CPU, GPU and memory controller on one die.

• CPU: eight Zen 2 cores with 16 threads. The firmware starts it at 3.2 GHz; the boost to 3.5 GHz is a kernel driver (ps5-cpufreq) on rmuxnet's kernel and PS5 Bazzite Deck, and ps5_control on upstream kernels, see Clocks and boost. The schedutil governor is the default.
• GPU: RDNA2 with 36 to 40 active compute units depending on the unit, PCI ID 1002:13fb, up to 2.23 GHz. The disabled compute units can be switched on with a kernel parameter.
• RAM: 16 GB of GDDR6 shared by CPU and GPU. About 14 GB is left for the operating system; the firmware keeps the rest. The GPU's memory comes out of those 14 GB, see Memory, VRAM and swap.

The PS5 Pro has a bigger GPU and a different wireless chip, see PS5 Pro.

Storage

• Internal NVMe: the console's own drive. Linux never writes to it.
• M.2 slot: takes standard NVMe SSDs on every firmware except the oldest, which can't boot with a drive in the slot. See Install to M.2 and M.2 drives.
• Blu-ray drive: on a Salina AHCI controller (104d:9105 / 104d:9106) with the ahci_salina driver. Working.

Video

• HDMI 2.1 through the console's HDMI chip: 1080p and 1440p at 60 and 120 Hz and 4K at 60 Hz on FLAVA3 consoles, 4K at 120 Hz on TVs that take the console's FRL link; VERDE consoles stop at 1080p120, 1440p60 and 4K60. See Display output and Display and HDMI.
• Hardware video decode and encode (VCN): working; HEVC encoding only with I-frames. See Hardware video (VCN).

Networking

• Ethernet: MediaTek Star GbE / Salina GBE (104d:9104) with the mts driver, full gigabit, works out of the box. See Ethernet.
• Wi-Fi: Marvell IW620 (1b4b:2b56) with the moal driver on most original PS5s, MediaTek on most Slims and the Pro. See Wi-Fi.

Salina chip revision

The wireless combo chip hangs off one of two revisions of the Salina chip, and the revision is not tied to the model: it varies from unit to unit. Check yours with:

dmesg | grep spcie

Output	Revision	Wi-Fi/Bluetooth
0x11xxxxx	Salina rev1 (Marvell)	✅ Supported with the out-of-tree Wi-Fi driver and the Bluetooth quirks
0x12xxxxx	Salina rev2 (MediaTek on most units, Marvell on some)	✅ Wi-Fi with the in-kernel drivers in every current kernel; Bluetooth with the fixes in PS5 Bazzite Deck

Audio

• HDMI audio: AMD/ATI 1002:13ea. Working. See Audio.
• HD Audio coprocessor: AMD Ariel 1022:13eb. Status unknown.

USB

• USB-A (2 ports, USB 3.1 Gen 2): AMD Ariel 1022:13ee
• USB-C (1 port, USB 3.1 Gen 2 with DisplayPort Alt Mode): AMD Ariel 1022:13ed
• Original PS5: the front USB-C port and the rear USB-A ports are fast and good for booting.
• PS5 Slim: boot from the rear USB-A ports.
• Front USB-C DisplayPort output: off by default in every current kernel. Turn it on with usbc_dp.enable=1 for USB-C displays and the PS VR2; don't use this when your boot drive is in the front USB-C port.

See Drives and USB ports for port speeds, hubs and adapters.

Equivalent PC hardware

Component	Roughly equivalent to
GPU	A 36 CU RDNA2 desktop card of the RX 6700 class, at similar clocks
CPU	An eight-core Zen 2 desktop CPU at reduced clocks

Next steps

Drives and USB ports: which drive to install to.