Sony Formally Announces Playstation 3

[waldwolf]

LOS ANGELES, May 17, 2005 - 17:00hrs PDT

Kyoto News Service

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc demonstrated for the first time Monday its PlayStation 3 video game console that features realistic high-definition graphics the company claims match the image quality of large-screen movies.

In a media preview for the Electronic Entertainment Expo, North America's largest trade show of game consoles and game titles getting under way Tuesday, Sony Computer Entertainment revealed the outline specifications of the new console it says will be put on the market in the spring of 2006. "Empowered by the Cell processor with supercomputer-like performance, a new age, of PlayStation 3, is about to begin," Sony Computer Entertainment President Ken Kutaragi said in a statement.

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

- 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

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[joka]

will it have some sort of OS so you can run other applications, what web browser will it use?

[thohts]

"2 TFLOPS"

The first PS3 will be approximately the 100th fastest computer in the world.

[Sydney_Tom]

A little bird told me that it was a version of IBM's O/S400 being run on it. Silimar to whats on the I-Series.

So the X-Box is Unix and PS/3 is OS/400.

Just what I heard on the grape-vine

[h90]

no, because they calculate it total different. Both Microsoft and Sony are cheating a little bit

"2 TFLOPS"

The first PS3 will be approximately the 100th fastest computer in the world.

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