PS3 Facts - Technology:The 80GB PS3 is tough with a very a robust hardware base supporting it. There's enough capacity in the PS3 to store about twenty thousand songs, so you won't run out of memory too quickly. Yes, the PS3 is priced a lot higher than its rivals like the Xbox 360 consoles, but it does have some unique features that neither Microsoft nor Nintendo have included in their gaming machines. To begin with, there's the Hi-definition Blu-Ray DVD player that's included in the console. With HD DVD dying the Blu-Ray is now the format of choice. It's not just the PS3 hardware that you should think about, but all the many PS3 games and accessories as well. The PS3 controller will often give the gamer a different experience when playing different types of games. As an example in a racing game like Motor Hurricane the user has the chance to either use the analogue sticks to manage the automobile, or turn the six axis feature to regulate the car by steering with the controller which will give the user a more realistic experience. Then take into account the PS3 has many exclusive games not available on other consoles. For example Metal Gear Solid Four: Guns of the Patriots is one of the many titles only available on the PS3. The PS3 might be priced higher than all the other consoles, but because of its exceptional hardware, and overall performance it's still excellent value for the money.
Recently Sony and Microsoft have been taking a loss on their consoles and a profiting from their games due to the popular demand of many of their titles. The idea behind many consoles is that the gamer will only buy one console, but will purchase hundreds of games. Many gamers know the real price behind each component, right now if you were to buy a top end graphics card on a PC it would cost you around $400. If you look at what goes into making these games consoles, you'd find that many are ahead of their time. Many of whom are multi-processor systems with a plethora of memory, Hi-Def graphics cards and hard disk storage. The PS3 even comes bundled with a Hi-Def Blu-ray player. And if you were to build your own custom made gaming PC, you could easily spend over $2,000.00.
CPU or (Central Processing Unit)
Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core at 3.2 GHz
1 x VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @ 3.2 GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
Total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS
GPU (Graphical Processing Unit)
RSX at 500MHz
1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Full Hi-Def up to 1080p + 2 channels
Multi way programmable floating point shader pipelines
Memory:
256 MB XDR Main RAM @ 3.2 GHz 256 MB GDDR3 VRAM @650MHz
System Bandwidth:
Main RAM 25.6 GB/s
VRAM 22.4 GB/s
RSX 20 GB/s write / 15 GB/s read
SB< 2.5 GB/s write / 2.5 GB/s read
System Floating Point Performance:
2 TFLOPS
Storage:
1 x Detachable 2.5" Serial ATA HDD 80GB
I/O:
2x USB2 Front
1 x Flash memory card slot
Communication:
1 x Ethernet 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T
1 x Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
1 x Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR) Support up to 7 controllers
The Controller:
Bluetooth (Has 7)
USB 2.0 (wired capability)
Wi-Fi Network
AV Output:
Screen Resolutions: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI: 1 x HDMI out
Analog: 1 x AV MULTI OUT
Digital audio: 1 x DIGITAL OUT AND OPTICAL
Disc Media:
CD: PlayStation CD-DA (ROM), PlayStation CD-ROM ,2 CD-ROM , CD-R,CD-DA , CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer), DualDisc (DVD side), DualDisc, SACD HD.
DVD: PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM, PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-Video DVD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD+RW, DVD+R, PlayStation 3 BD-ROM.
Blu-Ray: BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-Video, BD-RE.
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