| Manufacturer | Sony |
| Released | November 2006 (not yet avaible) |
| Dimensions | 9.8 x 32.5 x 27.4 cm (3.9 x 12.8 x 10.8 inch) |
| Weight | 5 kg (11 lbs) |
| CPU | 3.2 GHz Cell processor: one PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" and seven 3.2 GHz Synergistic Processing
Elements (SPEs).
- The PPE has a 512 KB L2 cache and one VMX (AltiVec) vector unit.
- Each of the eight SPEs is a RISC processor with 128-bit 128 SIMD GPRs and superscalar functions.
- Each SPE has 256 KB of L1 cache/software-addressable 4.8 GHz SRAM. |
| Memory | Total 512 MB, split into:
- 256 MB Rambus XDR DRAM clocked at CPU die speed (3.2 GHz).
- 256 MB GDDR3 VRAM clocked at 700 MHz. |
| Graphics | - Based on NVIDIA NV47 architecture.
- Clocked at 550 MHz.
- 128-bit DDR memory interface.
- 211.2 GFLOPS programmable (384 FLOPS per clock), 1.8 TFLOPS total.
- Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines.
- 136 shader operations per clock.
- 24 2D texture lookups per clock.
- 33 billion dot products per second.
- 128-bit pixel precision offers rendering of scenes with High dynamic range rendering. |
| Sound | - S/PDIF optical output for digital audio up to 7.1 sound.
- Dolby TrueHD (Blu-Ray movies only; compatible sound equipment required.
- DTS-HD.
- LPCM (DSP functionality handled by the Cell processor). |
| System bandwidth | - 204.8 GB/s Cell Element Interconnect Bus.
- Cell FlexIO Bus: 35 GB/s outbound, 25 GB/s inbound.
- 51.2 GB/s SPE to local store.
- Experimental Sustained bandwidth for some SPE-to-SPE DMA transfers - 78 to 197 GB/s.
- 25.6 GB/s to Main Ram XDR DRAM: 64 bits × 3.2 GHz / 8 bits to a byte.
- 22.4 GB/s to GDDR3 VRAM: 128 bits × 700 MHz × 2 accesses per clock cycle (one per edge) / 8 bits to a byte.
- RSX 20 GB/s (write), 15 GB/s (read).
- System Bus (separate from XIO controller) 2.5 GB/s write and 2.5 GB/s read. |
| Supported resolutions | 640x480 - 1280x720 - 1920x1080. |
| Communications | One Gigabit Ethernet Port; USB 2.0 (x4); Bluetooth 2.0; Wi-Fi (60 GB model only), IEEE 802.11b/g. |
| Power supply | A standard 3-pin IEC connector is present at the base of the console. |
| Storage | - Blu-ray Disc (2x = 9.0 MB/s) PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-R/RE.
- DVD (8x = 11.0 MB/s) PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD ± R/RW.
- CD (24x = 3.5 MB/s) PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW.
- SACD (2x) SACD Hybrid (CD layer) SACD HD.
- Hard Drive: Pre-Installed 20 GB / 60 GB (depending on package), 2.5", detachable/upgradeable, with Linux pre-installed.
- Flash memory interfaces (60 GB model only) - Memory Stick, CompactFlash, SD/MMC. |
| Controller | E3 2005 showcased Sony's "boomerang" design, which was abandoned to to poor public reaction and replaced with
an upgraded wireless version of the DualShock 2 at E3 2006. |
