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| Review: Sony Playstation 2 (Console) |
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| Manufacturer | Sony | | Released | March 4, 2000 (in Japan) | | Dimensions | - | | Weight | - | | CPU | 128 bit "Emotion Engine" clocked at 294 MHz, 10.5 million transistors.
- System Memory: 32 MB Direct Rambus or RDRAM.
- Memory bus Bandwidth: 3.2 GB per second.
- Main processor: MIPS R5900 CPU core, 64 bit.
- Floating Point Performance: 6.2 GFLOPS.
- 3D CG Geometric Transformation: 66 million polygons per second. | | Graphics | "Graphics Synthesizer" clocked at 147 MHz.
- Variable from 256x224 to 1280x1024 pixels.
- 4 MB DRAM video memory.
- DRAM Bus bandwidth: 47.0GB per second.
- DRAM Bus width: 2560-bit.
- Pixel Configuration: RGB:Alpha:Z Buffer.
- Dedicated connection to: Main CPU and VU1. | | Sound | "SPU1+SPU2" (SPU1 is actually the CPU clocked at 8 MHz).
- Number of voices: 48 hardware channels of ADPCM on SPU2 plus software-mixed channels.
- Sampling Frequency: 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz.
- Output: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround sound, DTS. | | I/O Processor | - CPU Core: Original PlayStation CPU (MIPS R3000A clocked at 33.8688 MHz or 37.5 MHz).
- Sub Bus: 32 Bit.
- Connection to: SPU and CD/DVD controller.
- Interface Types: 2 proprietary PlayStation controller ports (250KHz clock for PS1 and 500KHz for PS2 controllers), 2 proprietary
Memory Card slots using MagicGate encryption (250KHz for PS1 cards, up to 2MHz for PS2 cards), Expansion Bay DEV9 port for Network
Adaptor, Modem and Internal Hard Disk Drive, IEEE 1394, Infrared remote control port, and 2 USB 1.1 ports with an
OHCI-compatible controller. | | Disc Drive type | 4x (PlayStation 2 format CD-ROM, PlayStation format CD-ROM) 4x (Supported DVD formats) Region-locked with
anti-copy protection. | | Supported Disc Media | PlayStation 2 format CD-ROM, PlayStation format CD-ROM, Compact Disc Audio, PlayStation 2 format
DVD-ROM (4.7 GB), DVD Video (4.7 GB). Later models are DVD-9 (8.5 GB Dual-Layer), DVD+RW, and DVD-RW compatible. |
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