Playstation 3 Specifications and Stats
This is actually a bit old, but in case you don’t have them pasted on your wall yet, here are some of the core specs for the PS3, still supposedly to be released next spring:
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 edundancy
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
More details at News.com.
Note that Sony has since proclaimed that the HDD will be nixed. I’d expect to lose a few other bits and pieces before the final hardware comes out.
