Marty8370

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Official PS3 Specs

Here are the official technical specifications for the PS3, taken directly from Sony:

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 po...

7103d ago 2 agree2 disagreeView comment

Face it Xbots,PS3 version looks better.

7103d ago 2 agree0 disagreeView comment

PS3 will look better.PS3/Blu-ray are the future.

7104d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment
7105d ago

HD-DVD hav only slow X1 speed drive,none of HD-DVD drives are writable yet,Bluray has X2/X3 & X4 drives also writable Blu-ray are been sold now.Blu-ray are miles ahead.PS3/Blu-ray are the future.

7105d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

JVc,has done a Bluray/DVD Hybrid this is old news.

www.blu-ray.com/images/ifa200 5/jvc_04.jpg

IFA 2005 report:
JVC was showcasing their BD/DVD hybrid media (33.5GB), which was developed to ease the transition from DVD to Blu-ray by creating a disc that will play in both BD players and DVD players. The hybrid disc is basically a single-layer BD-ROM (25GB) and a dual-layer DVD-ROM (8.5GB) in the same disc, which can be read in both players as the Blu-ray laye...

7105d ago 0 agree5 disagreeView comment

drewdrakes - I'm right Bluray has faster read & write speeds X1/X2/X3 & X4 drives have already been shown and are on sale.HD-DVD hav'nt even got a writable drive on the market yet.

7105d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Sony will be upgrading servers to handle the extra traffic and downloads.So it won't be avaible at launch,so what.PS3/Blu-ray are the Future.

7106d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

HD-DVD will always be behind in storage space,cos it has less GB per layer.Blu-ray is also reading & writing faster,so advantage is clearly too Blu-ray.PS3/Blu-ray are the future

7106d ago 0 agree2 disagreeView comment

PS3/Bluray are the future.

7106d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

US get 400k PS3's at launch then a further 800k by January,400k+800K=1.2million.

7106d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

This game looks awesome for a PS3 launch game.

7107d ago 2 agree4 disagreeView comment

Awesome news.

7107d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Sony are also aiming for a million PS3's a month after launch,so 2 million by end of year and another 4 before march 2007=6 million in total.

7111d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

PS3 unproven,well if thats the case X360 is also,3 Core PPC & ATI GPU are unproven also.PS3/Blu-ray are the future.

7111d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Not really,if by march Sony can launch in Europe with more PS3's all will be good,Also PS3 will hav a better launch line-up by then.Heavenly Sword,UT2007,Assassins Creed,Virtua Fighter 5 to name a few.

7112d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

DJ - Sony already do build blue diodes,just demand has been too high for them,as Sony supply other manurfacturers.So untill they can up production,there is a shortage of them.

DJ - I agree blue diodes shortage effects both Nex Gen formats.

7112d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment
7112d ago

PS3 will be worth the wait.

7112d ago 0 agree1 disagreeView comment

Sony might sort the delays out,they said they were 1 month behind.

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