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E3 2005: PS3 Specs & More

We talked about some of the PS3's hardware specs yesterday. Here's the full rundown.

Oh, but before that… we forgot to mention one very big detail yesterday — the PS3 can output hi-def 1080p to not just one, but TWO HDTV's simultaneously! Some games will use dual displays to output a 32:9 panoramic view. Others can use the 2nd display to show maps or video conferencing during gameplay.

PS3 Specs

CPU
Cell Processor – 3.2GHz

512KB L2 Cache
8 processing units
218 GFLOPS performance

GPU
nVidia RSX – 550MHz

1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance (2X best current PC)
Full HD 1080p x 2 channels (two monitors!)

Memory
512MB total (256MB Main, 256MB video)

System Bandwidth
Main RAM 25.5GB/s
Video RAM 22.4GB/s
RSX 20GB/s write, 15GB/s read
System Bus 2.5GB/s read/write
Floating Point Performance 2 TFLOPS

Sound
Dolby 5.1, DTS, LPCM

Input/Output
HDD slot, 2.5" x 1
USB (4xFront, 2xBack)
Memory Stick, SD card, Compact Flash

Controllers
Bluetooth wireless – up to 7
USB 2.0
PSP (wifi)

Communication
Ethernet x3 (10baseT, 100baseT, gigabit)
WiFi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth 2.0

AV Output
Analog AV Multi Out x1
HDMI out x2
Digital Audio Optical output x 1
Capable of 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p x2 resolution

Disc Medias
CD – including PS1, CD-DA, SA-CD
DVD – including PS2, PS3, DVD-ROM, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD+R
Blu-Ray disc – PS3, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE