Playstation 3

Damien · 17-05-2005, 01:02

1. 2006 Release
2. Cell Processor at 3.2Ghz with 2.18TFLOPS of performance
3. Blu-Ray DVD Drive
4. Detachable 2.5 inch HD drive
5. Memory Stick Duo, SD, and CF slots
6. USB (4 in the back, 2 in the front)
7. Video chat, internet access, digital photo viewing, music and video
8. Backward compatible with both the original PS and PS2
9. Bluetooth support and controllers (up to 7 controllers), controllers last 24 hours on single charge
10. 256MB of XDR Main Ram at 3.2Ghz
11. 256MB of GDDR VRAM at 700Mhz
12. RSX "Reality Synthesizer" from nVidia (128bit pixel precision, 1080p resolution, 300 million transistors, 90nm, more powerful than two geforce 6800 ultras)
13. 2HDMI outputs
14. PSP will be able to connect and integrate (obviously)
15. A/V Multi-Out
16. SPDIF Optical Out
17. Gigabit Ethernet
18. PS3 is "capable of reaching 10 terraflops of processing power"

Source: http://www.ps3forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=2106&start=120
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Originally Posted by Sony

PLAYSTATIONÃ‚Â®3 Specifications
Product name PLAYSTATIONÃ‚Â®3
Logo PLAYSTATIONÃ‚Â®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 (PSPÃ‚Â®)
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 PlayStationÃ‚Â® CD-ROM
* read only PlayStationÃ‚Â®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 PlayStationÃ‚Â®2 DVD-ROM
PLAYSTATIONÃ‚Â®3 DVD-ROM
DVD-Video DVD-ROM, DVD-R,
DVD-RW, DVD+R,
DVD+RW
Blu-ray Disc PLAYSTATIONÃ‚Â®3 BD-ROM
BD-Video BD-ROM, BD-R,
BD-RE

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Once More:

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/614/614665p1.html

Quote:

May 16, 2005 - We don't know much, but Sony promises that "Grand Theft Auto Next" will be a PS3 launch title. This information comes from some people at the Sony E3 2005 press conference currently in progress, but we've yet to confirm the report with our own editors.

Its here people, More powerful (slightly) than the xbox. GTA, Bluetooth controls (Scary battery life), media centre, and supports every format under the sun (including blue ray) best HD available.

kronas · 17-05-2005, 02:10

i was just reading all this....tasty but im still iimpressed more so by the XBOX 360.

until i see some (in game) footage i will reserve fruther judgment.

edit: release of the console has been confirmed as spring 2006!
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http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/05...s_6124681.html

more games confirmed to be released:

the process confirmed several games for the console. Hideo Kojima introduced Konami's Metal Gear Solid 4, Capcom showed off Devil May Cry 4, Namco unveiled Tekken 6, Polyphony Digital trotted out Gran Turismo 5, SCEE showed off a brutal demo of the next Killzone.

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hutchy · 17-05-2005, 03:06

it's looking impressive to me.

OT: Is gamespot.com working for anyone? Cause it isnt for me, it hasnt been working all day

Gaz22 · 17-05-2005, 03:13

Some game pictures:

http://www.zombieculture.com/img/Killzone_02.jpg

http://www.zombieculture.com/img/KZ3_03.jpg

http://www.imgmag.org/images/xain1z/Killzone_01.jpg

From the new Killzone game.

17-05-2005, 07:53

So far the XBox 360 has extremely dissapointed me, but by the looks of the PS3 and the spec (more powerful than 2 6800 Ultras???) I'm really impressed.

**David F** · 17-05-2005, 08:38

Are there any official sony links with these specs??have I missed one here? they all appear to be forums and by that could be speculative

17-05-2005, 09:04

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4554025.stm

looks awful, and why change the controller, they had a winning formula there

Jarandco · 17-05-2005, 09:21

Hmm i'm undecided now the ps3 does look (spec and game wise) very nice, not too keen on the design, but it isnt bad! Alkso whats up with havng 7 bluetooth controllers? Wierd number isnt it?

I still like the xbox 360 a lot though, it does have some great games coming out for it, but as a news site put it they believe that xbox 360 and ps3 are in different console generations..

Suppose ill have to buy them both if ive got anoygh cash!

**Stephen** · 17-05-2005, 09:30

I prefer the look of the xbox360 and think it will be the better machine, but of course the PS3 will probably be the biggest selling again. I don't like the styling of the PS3 at all, however I will probably get both machines.

TheBlueRaja · 17-05-2005, 10:20

Dont believe the hype on any of them - just wait until you see it in action before you make your mind up.

They will feed you with BS until the day of release.

BTW - if you goto gamespot (See Kronas's post) and look at the game footage they have - can anybody spot something that could be concidered an actual in game shot as opposed to being pre-rendered?

Jarandco · 17-05-2005, 11:09

True, nearly all of the sony shots are not in game, whereas a large chunk of footgae shown by MS has been in game, and still looks very good, we will hopefully get more of the real facts during the actual E3 event!

I gotta say thought the Killzone 2 movie does look very good!

Halcyon · 17-05-2005, 11:14

Crikey !!! That controller lookslike a Boomerang !

I think Sony as always will dominate this new generation of consoles.
However, you never know what the new Nintendo Revolution could bring and with a lot of Japanese games developpers on their sides, Nintendo could turn things around and get back to the top may be.

As for the 360, It depends what the kick off price will be and what games will be coming out on it.

Kevin · 17-05-2005, 13:27

Thing is tho those Killzone screenshots dont look that special, in fact current xbox prob output those as they are...still await something breathtaking before I make my mind up...
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SO IBM hypersters are claiming their cell chip can do two teraflops per second. what about the lastest power5??? Go to IBM.com and find out here.

There you can see the latest and fastest power5 dual core processors can do 56.78 Gigaflop/sec in an eight way configuration. That's 16 Power5 cores combined, and the total is only 56.78 gigaflops for 16 lowly Power5 cores, or, about three gigaflops/per core. which makes sense, a float point operation takes more than one clock to finish, and each power5 core has probably two or more FP units...

So, there is no magic, you can't possibly do more than one instruction in one clock in one unit. You can do multiple if you have multiple units. To have 1000gigaflops, you will need 500 units each operate at two gigaflops.

A teraflop means 1000 gigaflops, so IBM is claiming that one PS3 is 2000% faster than an eight way power5 server selling at half a million bucks??

This is stupid.

Dave Y

**Stephen** · 17-05-2005, 15:01

Here is a pic of the console and Controller.

TheBlueRaja · 17-05-2005, 15:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jarandco

True, nearly all of the sony shots are not in game, whereas a large chunk of footgae shown by MS has been in game, and still looks very good, we will hopefully get more of the real facts during the actual E3 event!

I gotta say thought the Killzone 2 movie does look very good!

Yeah but the problem is that all these people are running around now going WOW did you see Killzone 2 - it looks the nuts - believeing its in game footage and not a video.

Sony are really, really bad for doing this - they did it last time with the PS2 and now there doing it again with PS3.

At least with Xbox 360 you are actually seeing some in game footage.

Stickin with the PC though