Sony n'a pas attendu longtemps avant de révéler le design de sa console next-gen, la PS3. Après Microsoft et sa X360, c'est au tour du grand rival d'exposer son petit monstre, et d'en profiter pour annoncer la couleur avec les spécifications techniques. Au programme, du Blu-ray (logique), du Bluetooth (pourquoi pas), et un CPU en béton. Et tout ça pour début 2006.
- 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 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
- Sound Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell-base 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) SB 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)
- System Floating Point Performance 2 TFLOPS
- Storage HDD Detachable 2.5" HDD slot x 1
- I/O USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0) Memory Stick standard/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)
- Controller Bluetooth (up to 7) USB2.0 (wired) Wi-Fi (PSP) Network (over IP)
- AV Output Screen size 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p HDMI HDMI out x 2 Analog AV MULTI OUT x 1 Digital audio DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1
- Disc media * read only CD PlayStation CD-ROM PlayStation2 CD-ROM CD-DA CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW SACD SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD DualDisc DualDisc (audio side),DualDisc DVD side)
- DVD PlayStation2 DVD-ROM PLAYSTATION®3 DVD-ROM DVD-Video DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
- Blu-ray Disc PLAYSTATION3 BD-ROM BD-Video BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE
