PlayStation 2 Technical Specifications

MIPS IV-Subset
300 MHz (294.912 MHz)
128-bit Integer SIMD
128-bit Floating-Point SIMD
24KB Cache (16KB Instruction + 8KB Data)
16KB Scratch Pad RAM
Co-Processor 1: FPU
- Floating Point Multiply Accumulator (FMAC) x 1
- Floating Point Divider (FDIV) x 1
- 8KB Cache (4KB Instruction + 4KB Data)
Co-Processor 2: VU0
- Floating Point Multiply Accumulator (FMAC) x 4
- Floating Point Divider (FDIV) x 1
- 8KB Cache (4KB Instruction + 4KB Data)
Vector Processing Unit: VU1
- Floating Point Multiply Accumulator (FMAC) x 5
- Floating Point Divider (FDIV) x 2
- 32KB Cache (16KB Instruction + 16KB Data)
450 Dhrystone MIPS
6.2 GFLOPS
Geometry:
- 66 Million Polygons per Second (peak)
- 38 Million Polygons per Second (lighting)
- 36 Million Polygons per Second (fog)
- 16 Million Polygons per Second (curved surface generation)
Image Processing Unit (IPU): MPEG2 Compressed Image Decoder
- 150 Million Pixels per Second
DMA: 10 channels

Graphics Synthesizer (GS)

150 MHz (147.456 MHz)
16 Pixel Pipelines
2.4 Gigapixels per Second (no texture)
1.2 Gigatexels per Second
Point, Bilinear, Trilinear, Anisotropic Mip-Map Filtering
Perspective-Correct Texture Mapping
Bump Mapping
Environment Mapping
32-bit Color (RGBA)
32-bit Z Buffer
4MB Multiported Embedded DRAM
38.4 Gigabytes per Second eDRAM Bandwidth (19.2 GB/s in each direction)
9.6 Gigabytes per Second eDRAM Texture Bandwidth
150 Million Particles per Second
Polygon Drawing Rate:
- 75 Million Polygons per Second (small polygon)
- 50 Million Polygons per Second (48-pixel quad with Z and Alpha)
- 30 Million Polygons per Second (50-pixel triangle with Z and Alpha)
- 25 Million Polygons per Second (48-pixel quad with Z, Alpha, and Texture)
18.75 Million Sprites per Second (8 x 8 pixel sprites)