Summary
128 bit 300MHz
32MB RAM
20 million polys/sec.
MPEG2
DVD
Dolby Digital AC-3
USB
FireWire
PC-Card
Backward Comp.
Next Generation PlayStation Specifications
When you compare the specifications of the original PlayStation to this, you start wondering how on earth Gran Tourismo and Tekken 3 were even possible on the PS. Then you realize how incredible GT3 and T4 will be on the next generation PlayStation!!! The insane polygon pushing power, combined with the hardware support for Bezier curves, Dolby Digital, DVD and compability with the original PlayStation makes this the undisputed King of Consoles! Arrival Japan: Hopefully Christmas '99, but at least by March 2000.
Arrival US/Europe: Fall 2000
Price: About 50,000 Yen Specifications
- CPU: 128 Bit "Emotion Engine" 300 MHz
- Instruction Cache: 16KB
- Data Cache: 8KB + 16KB
- 32 MB RAM
- Direct Rambus (Direct RDRAM)
- Memory Bus Bandwidth: 3.2GB per Second
- Co-processor
- FPU (Floating Point Unit)
- Floating Point Multiply Accumulator
- Floating Point Divider
- Vector Units: VU0 and VU1
- Floating Point Multiply Accumulator x 9
- Floating Point Divider x 3
- Floating Point Performance: 6.2 GFLOPS
- 3D CG Geometric Transformation: 66 Million Polygons per second
- Compressed Image Decoder: MPEG2
- Graphics: "Graphics Synthesizer"
- Clock Frequency: 150MHz
- DRAM Bus bandwidth: 48GB per Second
- DRAM Bus width: 2560 bits(!)
- Pixel Configuration RGB:Alpha:Z Buffer (24-bit:8-bit:32-bit)
- Max Polygon Rate: 75 Million Polygons per Second
- Sound: "SPU2+CPU"
- Number of Voices ADPCM: 48ch on SPU2 plus definable, software programmable voices
- Sampling Frequency: 44.1 KHz or 48 KHz (selectable)
- IOP I/O Processor
- CPU: Core PlayStation (current) CPU
- Clock Frequency: 33.8MHz or 37.5MHz (Selectable)
- Sub Bus: 32-Bit
- Interface Types: IEEE1394, Universal Serial Bus (USB)
- Communication via PC-Card (PCMCIA)
- Disc format: CD-ROM and DVD-ROM
Specs. from Next Generation Online
(C) Nils Petter Jacobsen 1999