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Issue 17 - March 4, 1999
 
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PlayStation 2 - hardware specs

PlayStation 2: Hardware specification

CPU - 128 Bit "Emotion Engine"
System Clock Frequency - 300 MHz
Cache Memory - Instruction: 16Kb, Data: 8Kb + 16Kb (ScrP)
Main Memory - Direct Rambus (Direct RDRAM)
Memory Size - 32Mb
Memory Bus Bandwidth - 3.2Gb per Second
Co-processor - FPU (Floating Point Unit)
Floating Point Multiply Accumulator x 1
Floating Point Divider x 1
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 - 2560bits
Pixel Configuration - RGB:Alpha:Z Buffer (24:8:32)
Maximum 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 32bit
Interface Types - IEEE1394, Universal Serial Bus (USB)
Communication - via PC-Card (PCMCIA)
Disc Device - CD-ROM and DVD-ROM 01/03/99

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