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Friday, May 20, 2005

PlayStation 3 Official Specifications

SCEA - E3 2005 : Hardware : PlayStation 3

"PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3) computer entertainment system combines state-of-the-art technologies featuring Cell, a processor jointly developed by IBM, Sony Group and Toshiba Corporation, graphics processor (RSX) co-developed by NVIDIA Corporation and SCEI, and XDR memory developed by Rambus Inc. It also adopts BD-ROM (Blu-ray Disc ROM) with maximum storage capacity of 54 GB (dual layer), enabling delivery of entertainment content in full high-definition (HD) quality, under a secure environment made possible through the most advanced copyright protection technology. To match the accelerating convergence of digital consumer electronics and computer technology, PS3 supports high quality display in resolution of 1080p(*) as standard, which is far superior to 720p/1080i."

PLAYSTATION®3 Official Specifications:

CPU
Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy total floating point performance : 218 GFLOPS

GPU
RSX @550MHz
1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines

Sound
Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell-base processing)

Memory
256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz
256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz

System Bandwidth
Main RAM 25.6GB/s
VRAM 22.4GB/s
RSX 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
SB 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)

System Floating Point Performance
2 TFLOPS

Storage
HDD
Detachable 2.5” HDD slot x 1

I/O
USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x 1
SD standard/mini x 1
CompactFlash (Type I, II) x 1

Communication
Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)

Wi-Fi
IEEE 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth
Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)

Controller
Bluetooth (up to 7)
USB2.0 (wired)
Wi-Fi (PSP®)
Network (over IP)

AV Output
Screen size 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI HDMI out x 2
Analog AV MULTI OUT x 1
Digital audio DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1

Disc media * read only
CD
PlayStation® CD-ROM
PlayStation®2 CD-ROM
CD-DA CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW
SACD SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD
DualDisc DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)

DVD
PlayStation®2 DVD-ROM
PLAYSTATION®3 DVD-ROM
DVD-Video DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW

Blu-ray Disc
PLAYSTATION®3 BD-ROM
BD-Video BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE

* Storage media (HDD, “Memory Stick”, SD memory card, and CompactFlash) are sold separately.
* “Dolby” is a trademark of Dolby Laboratories.
* “DTS” is a trademark of Digital Theater Systems, Inc.
* “CompactFlash” is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation.
* “HDMI” is a trademark of HDMI Licensing LLC.
* “Blu-ray Disc” is a trademark.
* “Bluetooth” is a trademark of Bluetooth SIG, Inc.
* All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
* “Memory Stick” and “Memory Stick PRO” are trademarks of Sony Corporation.
* “PlayStation", the PlayStation logo and “PSP” are registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

¶ D.Vader // 5/20/2005 10:28:00 AM // PermaLink