CPU

• 3.2GHz Cell Processor
• PowerPC-base Core
• VMX vector unit
• 512KiB L2 cache
• 7 x SPE @3.2GHz
• 7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
• 7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
• 218 GFLOPS of total floating point performance:

*Each chip includes 8 SPEs, but one is disabled to improve yields and reduce costs

GPU

Custom "RSX" or "Reality Synthesizer" design co-developed by NVIDIA and Sony:

• Clocked at 550 MHz
• 1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance, 356 GFLOPS programmable
• Full high definition output (up to 1080p) x 2 channel
• Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines
• 300.4 million transistors
• 280 shader operations per cycle
• 154 billion shader operations per second
• 51 billion dot products per second (When combined with CPU power.)
• 128-bit pixel precision (for rendering scenes with high dynamic range imaging)
• Vertices Performance: 1.1 billion vertices per second
• Texture bandwidth: 47.5 GB/sec

Memory

• 256MB XDR Main RAM (3.2GHz) 
• 256MB GDDR3 VRAM (700MHz)

Sound

• Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell- base processing)

System Bandwidth

• Main XDR DRAM 64 bits × 3.2 GHz = 25.6GB/s
• GDDR-3 VRAM: 128 bits × 700 MHz × 2 accesses per clock cycle (one per edge) = 22.4 GB/s
• RSX 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
• System Bus 2.5GB/s
  

System Floating Point Performance

• 2 TFLOPS

• USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
• Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x 1
• SD standard/mini x 1
• CompactFlash (Type I, II) x 1

Communications

• Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)
• Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
• Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)
• USB 2.0 (four front and two rear ports)
  

Controller

• Bluetooth (up to 7 controllers)
• USB 2.0
• 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi (for the PSP)
• IP Networking
  

Audio/Video Output

• Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
• 2 HDMI outputs
• Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1
• Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1

Storage/Disc Media

• Blu-ray Disc: PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE
• CD: PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 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)
• DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
• Memory Stick standard/Duo and standard/mini slots
• CompactFlash Type I and II slot
• SD slot
• Slot for detachable 2.5" hard drive (drive likely sold seperately)