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Playstation 3 announced

May 16, 2005 at 08:19 PM
The PS3 in white, silver, and black

Sony officially announced the Playstation 3 tonight and specs, details, and images abound. Rather than just collect images and extraneous details and then spout them back at you, I figured it would be more useful to link you to pretty much every resource I can find:

The ugly PS3 controller

Here's the official stats from Kotaku:

  • 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 edundancy
    • 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-based 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 (USB 2.0)
    • Memory Stick: standard/Duo, PRO x 1
    • SD: standard/mini x 1
    • CompactFlash: (Type I, II) x 1
    • Bluetooth: Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)
  • Communication:
    • Ethernet - 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)
    • Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11 b/g
  • Controller:
    • Bluetooth (up to 7)
    • USB 2.0 (wired)
    • Wi-Fi (PSP)
    • Network (over IP)
  • AV Output:
    • Resolutions: 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, PlayStation2 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), PlayStation2 DVD-ROM, PLAYSTATION3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
  • Blu-ray Disc: PLAYSTATION3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE

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1 Kevin Dube said...

Hi all you PS3 fans.
I have just started a new forum devoted to the new playstation 3.

Please register and join in on the discussions.

http://www.ps3ps3.com/ps3forum

Thanks, Kevin

See you there!

Posted on June 12, 2005 at 12:05 AM

2 mihaela said...

ola es mejor juego de mi vida que e visto y espero que veo mas de lo que imajinais deuuuuu

Posted on November 17, 2005 at 12:35 PM

3 Denis said...

hallo wan werd der ps 3 rauskomen

Posted on February 08, 2006 at 12:42 PM

4 said said...

#4 plz STFU !

Posted on August 06, 2006 at 09:41 AM

5 lol said...

lol moi

Posted on September 29, 2006 at 10:59 AM