[gkrishn]

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
* 3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
* 2 hardware threads per core; 6 hardware threads total
* 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core; 3 total
* 128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
* 1 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance
* 9 billion dot product operations per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor
* 500 MHz
* 10 MB embedded DRAM
* 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically-scheduled shader

Overall System Floating-Point Performance

* 1 TFLOP

This configuration will smash even the most high end servers that exists today hands down. 1 TFLOP... what is this??? some super computer? Think MS is hell bent on cleaning off sony here...

The detailed spec here...

Some pics here...

[khanak]

Sony PS3 will feature a very powerful processor newly developed by Sony Toshiba and IBM called the 'cell' though that wont be out for another year

[jesal]

isnt the ps3 out tommo on monday the 16. i read it somewhere it was

[khanak]

No way dude the PS3 isnt going to be out for another year.
Though here is a "spy" pics of the PS3
dont know if its real or not

[gkrishn]

Heard that the "cell" proc is scalable upto 10ghz...
Think here after the games will have movie like clarity...

GK

[gkrishn]

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

The actual pic of ps3 goes here...



...and that controller looks wierd.

[srasania]

Well,the PS3 will surely be much much more better than the XBox 360.
But,PS3 will take another 10-15 months to hit the market,while XBox 360 is gonna be out commercially fall 2005..
Also,I've heard that Microsoft is going to Launch their Halo 3 for XBox 360 on THE SAME date as to when Sony will launch their PS 3 !!..!..well,anyway,till the PS 3 is out..XBox 360 is gonna rule..then things might change..

Suraj