I am utterly amazed and lost for words after watching the PlayStation 3 revealed during the Sony Conference at E3 Expo 2005. There is no doubt in my mind that this will make an enourmous impact on the way games and digital entertainment in general is percieved. PlayStation 3 effectively makes Xbox 360 obsolete long before it hits the streets, that’s is atleast my immediate conclusion. Furthermore PS3 will be launched in Spring 2006 opposed to the Summer 2006 rumour.

Goodies include Bluetooth, Wireless LAN (b/g), optional 2.5″ Harddisk, BlueRay, HDTV x 2!, 128bit float pr. pixel precision, Memory Stick DUO, CompactFlash, SD Flash, nVidia RSX GPU (Reality Synthesizer, said to outperform two GeForce 6800 Ultra‘s!!), and ofcourse the highly amazing Cell PowerPC Processor from Sony, IBM and Toshiba. Put into the equation the astounding bandwidths of the databuses and amazing RAM speeds clocking in at 700 Mhz and 3.6 Ghz.

See the E3 section at Gamespot for all the juicy details, movies, press conferences, screenshots and more..

* GameSpot at E3: The 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo
* E3 Insider | The Official E3 News site
* Sony Computer Entertainment Amercia | E3 2005 Website
* Wired | My Great Big Console Adventure
Read on for the full PlayStation 3 (PS3) Specifications.

PLAYSTATION 3 SPECIFICATIONS

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 gigaflops

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-based 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)
* SB2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)

SYSTEM FLOATING POINT PERFORMANCE:
* 2 teraflops

STORAGE
* HDD Detachable 2.5″ HDD slot x 1
* I/O* USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
* Memory Stickstandard/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)
* ControllerBluetooth (up to 7)
* USB 2.0 (wired)
* Wi-Fi (PSP)
* Network (over IP)

AV OUTPUT
* Screen size 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
* HDMI out x 2
* AV multi out x 1
* Digital out (optical) x 1

DISC MEDIA
* CD
* PlayStation CD-ROM
* PlayStation2 CD-ROM
* CD-DA
* CD-DA (ROM),
* CD-R,
* CD-RW
* SACD Hybrid (CD layer),
* SACD HD
* DualDisc (audio side)
* DualDisc (DVD side)
* PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM
* PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM
* DVD-ROM
* DVD-R
* DVD-RW
* DVD+R,
* DVD+RW
* Blu-ray Disc
* PlayStation 3 BD-ROM
* BD-ROM
* BD

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