- New power supply ADP-200ER replaced ADP-240CR and is 80g lighter.
- New BD drive.
- New 8Gb GDDR5 chips (Samsung K4G80325FB-HC03)
- New main board SAC-001 replaced SAB-001 and has 60mm less width.
- The APU CXD90037G remains the same.
Following chips existed at previous models are now missing:
- Fujitsu USB 3.0-SATA bridge
- Marvell Ethernet LSI
- Genesys Logic USB 3.0 hub controller LSI
- The secondary processor CXD90036G has direct connection to all of them (the guy speculates Sony may have eliminated USB3.0 - SATA conversion).
- HDMI transmitter is MN864729 by Panasonic.
- Boot system LSI is changed to A00-C0L2 (there seems to be some new patent regarding system control)
- Blu-ray drive control subboard is now missing and controller LSI R9J04G011FP1 & motor driver BD7764MUV are now on mainboard.
- Cooling fan remains the same (KSB0912HE).
- Heatsink's base is changed from aluminum to steel.
- The heatpipe existed at heatsink's base remains, but one existed at aluminum fins is now missing.