Digital Trends

Sony Playstation 3

November 15th, 2006 | by Scott Steinberg

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 

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 2.0 (EDR) 

Controller 

Bluetooth (up to 7) 

USB 2.0 (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 

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