The Specs Of PS3

[The Driver]

Here is the announced specs of the PlayStation 3. Now, can anyone tell me whether the PS3 is powerful from this list? This was from the magazine, PSM2. Here it is...

CPU

Cell Processor

PowerPC-base Core@ 3.2Ghz

1 VMX vector unit per core

512 Kb L2 cache

7x SPE @3.2 Ghz

7x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs

7x @%^KB SRAM for SPE

*1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy

total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

GPU

RSX @ 550 Mhz

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

256 MB XDR MAin RAM

256 GSSR3 VRAM @ 700 Mhz

System Bandwidth

Main RAM 25.6GB/s

VRAM 22.4GB/s

RSX 20GB/s(write) + 15 GB/s (read)

SB 2.5 GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (Read)

System Floating Point Performance

2 TFLOPS

Storage HDD

I/O USB

Memory Stick

SD

Compact Flash

Communication

Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 100BASE-T)x3

(input x 1 + output x 2)

Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11b/g

Bluetooth Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)

Controller

Bluetooth (Up to 7)

USB 2.0 (wired)

Wi-Fi (PSP

Network (over IP)

AV Output

Screen size 48oi, 48op, 720p, 1080oi, 1080op.

HDMI HDMI out x 2

Analog AV multi out x 1.

Disc Media

Disc media: CD, PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R,CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD, DualDisc, DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side), PlayStation2 DVD-ROM, PLAYSTATION3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW

Blu-ray Disc: PLAYSTATION3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE.

Does this mean anything to anyone? Is the PS3 actually powerful from these specs?

[tommy vercetti guy]

I dunno, the system is called "next gen", mabye its crap.