Specs for Playstation 3

So what’s Playstation 3 made of that makes it so different and special?  Well, the specs for Playstation 3 may perhaps give the idea of what lies inside the ‘black box’ which places it among the most outstanding video game entertainments of the era.

Specs for Playstation 3 – CPU: Cell Processor

This is one of the specs for Playstation 3 that makes it rather unique, the Cell Processor is said to be able to think, calculate, and react all at the same time instantly, giving it the ability to make every game excellently spontaneous; the Cell Processor includes a PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz; 512KB L2 cache; 7x128b 128 SIMD GPRs; 1 VMX vector unit per core; 7xSPE @3.2 GHz; one of eight SPEs reserved for redundancy has a total floating point performance of 218 GFLOPS; and 7x256KB SRAM for SPE.

Specs for Playstation 3 – GPU: RSX @550MHz

The GPU of Playstation 3 contains full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels; 1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance; and a multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines.

Specs for Playstation 3 – Sound and Memory

Playstation 3 sound is Dolby 5.1ch, LPCM, DTS, and more (Cell-base processing); the memory is 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz and 256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2 GHz.

Specs for Playstation 3 – System Bandwith and System Floating Point Performance

Playstation 3’s system bandwith include a main RAM of 25.6GB/s, a VRAM of 22.4GB/s, an SB of 2.5 GB/s (write) + 2.5 GB/s (read), and an RSX of 20 GB/s (write) + 1.5 GB/s (read).  Its system floating point performance is 2 TFLOPS.

Specs for Playstation 3 – Storage, I/O, Communication, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Controller, and AV Output

Playstation 3’s storage is HDD with detachable 2.5”HDD slot x1; I/O includes a USB with Frontx4, Rearx2 (USB2.0), a memory stick that is standard/Dou, PRO x 1, an SD standard/mini x 1, a compact flash (type I, II) x 1; communication is Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000 BASE-TX) x 3 (input x 1 output x2); Wi-Fi is IEEE 802.11 b/g; Bluetooth is 2.0 (EDR); Controller  includes Bluetooth (up to seven), Wi-Fi (PSP), USB 2.0 (wired), and network (over IP); AV output includes a screen size of 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p, a HDMI out x 2, an Analog AV multi out x 1, and digital audio (optical)x1.

These specs for Playstation 3 have made Playstation 3 one of Sony’s brilliant legacies that have become the heart of most home entertainment network.