How much grunt does the ps3 console really have under the hood, with a lot of help from our techie friends we have created an indepth review of its capabilities and schematics design.

The overall processing power of the Ps3 is enhanced with the Dual Graphics processing units from Nvidia and the Emotion Engine & Graphics Synthesizer from Toshiba. This console is a design marvel with the motherboard looking from afar as enterprise server or similiar.

Top List of Components:

1. Dual Graphics Processors
(GPUs), i.e. the RSX Reality Synthesizer from Nvidia Corp. and the Emotion Engine & Graphics Synthesizer from Toshiba Corp. The RSX Reality Synthesizer delivers cutting-edge high-definition graphics—while the Emotion Engine provides backward compatibility with PlayStation 2 game titles.

2. The Cell Broadband Engine from IBM
Which serves as the central processing unit of the PlayStation 3, provides the equivalent computing power of eight individual microprocessors. The Cell is what endows the PlayStation 3 with its supercomputer-like power.

3. Four Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. 512Mbit DRAMs
The use of four Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. 512Mbit DRAMs that employ high-speed memory interface technology from Rambus Inc. This marks the first use of the advanced XDR DRAM technology that iSuppli has detected. Samsung’s memory represents 11 percent of PlayStation 3 costs. Samsung and Elpida Memory Inc. are dual sources for the XDR DRAM.

Operating system running constantly in the background use the following:
• 32mb of the 256mb of available GDDR3 memory off the RSX chip
• 64mb of the 256mb of available XDR memory off the Cell CPU
• 1 SPE of 7 constantly reserved
• 1 SPE of 7 able to be “taken” by the OS at a moments


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Tech Details
Supported Format (Interlaced) 480i (SDTV)
1080i
Supported Format (Progressive) 480p
720p
1080p
HDD Capacity 60/80 GB
Connectivity Bluetooth
Ethernet
HDMI Output
Optical Digital Output
Data Link Protocol 802.11b/g
Sound Output Mode Surround Sound
Floating Point Performance 218 GFLOPS
Processor Speed (GHz) 3.2 GHz
MPN 00711719699750
Connectivity Technology Wired
Memory Card Compatibility Memory Stick
SD Card
Memory Stick PRO
CompactFlash Card
Sound Output Modes Dolby Digital 5.1
DTS
Colour Black
Dimensions 325 x 99 x 274 mm (w x h x d)
Weight (kg) 5 kg
Installed RAM (MB) 256 MB/512MB
RAM Type GDDR3 VRAM
Additional Features Cell Processor CPU / RSX GPU
Built-In Hard Drive No
Controller Features Bluetooth
Motion Detection
Wi-Fi
Handheld Yes
Supported Media CD
SACD
DVD-RW
DVD-R
DVD
CD-RW
CD-R
Blu-ray

Blue Ray Movies
On the video front, the PS3 plays Blu-ray discs in full high-definition as well as DVD movies. It also supports MPEG1, MPEG2, and MPEG4/h.264 video files from flash, USB, or disc-based media (reading from the “video” directory). If you transfer the videos to the PS3’s hard drive, thumbnails on the video menu are shown as 15-second video clips, rather than just as still images of the first frame of the video. You currently can’t stream files from your PC or over your LAN (local area network), but you can stream video from your PS3 to your PSP using the PS3’s Remote Play feature. Sony hasn’t yet provided for a way to convert videos you might download from its PlayStation Store to a portable size that can be automatically be transferred to your PSP. But we’ve been told to expect tighter–and better–integration with the PSP both offline and online in the future.

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