Hardware revisions
- V1 - original
- V2 - second generation of PS3 having less hw features, but Cell Processor is based on 65 nm technology (less heat, less power usage)
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
- 218 GFLOPS floating point
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
- Produced by nVidia and similar to the 7800 GPU intended for PCs
Sound
Memory
- 256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz
- 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz
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)
Storage
- HDD Detachable 2.5” HDD slot x 1
- USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0) [only USB Front x 2 in V2]
- Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x 1 [not in V2]
- SD standard/mini x 1 [not in V2]
- CompactFlash (Type I, II) x 1 [not in V2]
Communication
- Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)
- Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
- Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)
Controller
AV Output
- Screen size
- 480i, 480p, 576i, 576p, 720p,1080i, 1080p
- HDMI
- Analog AV
- Digital audio
Disc media
- CD
- PlayStation® CD-ROM [not in V2]
- PlayStation®2 CD-ROM [not in V2]
- CD-DA CD-DA (ROM), CD-R,CD-RW
- SACD SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD [not in V2]
- DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)
- DVD
- PlayStation®2 DVD-ROM [not in V2]
- PLAYSTATION®3 DVD-ROM
- DVD-Video
- DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
- Blu-ray Disc
- BD-Video