| | PlayStation 3 Specs and Rumors | | Question | | Hank can you tell me everything you know about playstation3 (including rumors please) | | Answer | Well, since you asked for rumors, you better hang on to your seat! Here come the rumors!
Main Processor: code-named “Cell” produced by IBM on 0.10-micron SOI process.
Clock Speed: 3 GHz
Floating-Point Performance: 196 GFLOPS
Operations per Second: 2 Trillion
3D Geometric Transformations: 2 Billion Polygons per Second
New processor design specifically for broadband communication generation.
System Memory: 512MB
System Memory Bandwidth: 24 GB/sec
Secondary Processor: Emotion Engine on 0.13-micron process (backward compatible with PS2)
Clock Speed: 300 MHz or 375 MHz (selectable)
GS3 (Graphics Synthesizer 3)
Clock Speed: 750 MHz
Embedded DRAM: 32MB
Screen Resolution: variable from 320x224 to 1920x1080
Fillrate: 24 Billion Pixels per Second
Sound: SPU3 + CPU
Number of Voices: 256 ADPCM channels + software
DVD-ROM
Built-in Broadband Ethernet Port
120GB Hard Disk Drive
Japanese Release Date: Q4 2004
US Release Date: Q3 2005
Some of these specifications are based on facts (but not necessarily directly involving PS3), some are based on rumors passed around the Internet, and other parts I devised myself through intensive calculations. :)
HANK
Date: 2001-11-30
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