i think release date will be end quarter 2005 for japan so ps3 should hit worldwide early 2006
Console: PlayStation 3
Release Date: ??
CPU: ??? Bit "Emotion Engine 3" aka "Cell" 8 Indetical Attached Processing Unit (APU): Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD)
System Clock Frequency: 4.6 GHz
Operating Performance:
Co-Processors: 4 X FPU: 32 billion floating point operations per second (32 GFLOPS)
4 X Integer Units: 32 billion operations per second (32 GOPS)
Floating Point Performance: 256 GFLOPS
Main Memory Type: 64 Bit XDR-RAM at 6.4GHz (Rambus, "Yellowstone"/"Redwood")
Memory Size: 320 MB
Memory Bus Bandwidth: dual-channel 102.4 GB/sec
Operating System ROM:
Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce processor
Max Resolution: ~2560x1920 pixels
Graphics Clock Frequency: 825 Mhz
Embedded Cache VRAM: 128 MB
DRAM Bus Bandwidth: 48GB/sec
DRAM Bus Width: 2Kbits
Pixel Configuration
Maximum Polygon Rate: 6 billion polygons/sec
Pixel Fill Rate: 16 Gigapixels/sec
Sprite Drawing Rate:
Display Compatibility: NTSC
PAL
Digital TV
VESA
HDTV
Rendering Functions: Mip mapping
Transform & Lighting (T&L)
Polygon Distortion
Volumetrics
Bump Mapping
Multi Pass Rendering
Tri-linear Rendering
Lighting
Full Scene Anti-Aliasing (FSAA)
Sound: Spruz 2' Fully compatible with Dolby and beyond
Number of Voices: 512 Simultaneous 2D Voices / 128 Simultaneous 3D Voices
Sampling Frequency: 44.1Khz / 48Khz (selectable)
Disk Device/Speed:
CD-ROM
DVD-ROM
Blu-Ray ROM
Memory Card Types:
Interfaces:
4 X USB 2.0 Port
i. S400 I-Link? (IEEE1394) connector
AV MULTIOUT connector
4 X Controller Port (Wireless??)
10/100 Ethernet Port
Operating System: Linux Based ??
Multitasking: Yes
Multithreading: Yes
Supported File Systems: ISO 9960 Level 1, CD File System
UDF (Universal Disk Format), DVD File System