Official Sony Playstation 3 - PS3 - Announcement
Posted on Tue, 17 May 2005 03:21:32 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
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Sony published a 7 page press-release about the Sony PS3 on its Japanese site. Good thing they also published an English version. Many details are already floating around the web. The official Sony press-release is most
reliable source though.
The Press-release says that a prototype of the PS3 will be shown at the E3 show floor. The Sony PS3 is
supposed to be launched in Spring 2006 at the E3 2006 - Let's hope that this is a world-wide launch.
Sony highlights that the PS3 supports with 1080p (progressive) the highest HD resolution. The Xbox 360 'only' supports 1080i. The press-release contains
several quotes from Game Developers praising the Playstation 3. Read below the complete Sony PS3 Specification.
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Complete Sony PS3 Specifications:
| Product name | PLAYSTATION®3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
More details in Sony PS3 press-release. Sony also has a dedicated E3 2005 site with video reports from the E3 starting today.
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