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The PlayStation 3 technical specifications describe the various components of the PlayStation 3 (PS3) video game console.
Central processing unit
The PS3 uses the Cell microprocessor, which is made up of one 3.2 GHz PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" (PPE) and six accessible Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs). A seventh runs in a special mode and is dedicated to aspects of the OS and security, and an eighth is a spare to improve production yields. PlayStation 3's Cell CPU achieves a theoretical maximum of 153.6 GFLOPS in single precision floating point operations and up to 15 GFLOPS double precision.[1]
The PS3 has 256 MB ([2]) of Rambus XDR DRAM, clocked at CPU die speed.[1] The PPE has 64 KB ([3]) L1 cache and 512 KB L2 cache, while the SPEs have 2 MB local memory (256 KB per SPE),[4] connected by the Element Interconnect Bus (EIB) with up to 307.2 Gbit/s bandwidth.
Graphics processing unit
According to Nvidia, the RSX — the graphics processing unit (GPU) — is based on the NVIDIA G70 (previously known as NV47) architecture. The GPU is clocked at 500 MHz and makes use of 256 MB GDDR3 RAM clocked at 650 MHz with an effective transmission rate of 1.3 GHz.[5] The RSX has a floating-point performance of 172 GFLOPS.
Configurations
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The PS3 received several component revisions which served to reduce power consumption. This in turn resulted in production savings, lower heat production, lower cooling requirements and quieter operation. Since launch, the Cell processor shrank from 90 nm to 45 nm. The RSX GPU also saw reduction in size over periodic revisions of the PS3.
Major improvements were introduced with the PS3 Slim. It utilizes a 45 nm Cell which results in a 34% reduction in power consumption over the previous 65 nm Cell model;[6] the last Slim model further decreases power consumption with the move to a 40 nm RSX and later 28 nm on the CECH-43xx models.[7]
| Generation | Features[8][9] | PAL/NTSC | Model number(s)[10] | CPU process | GPU process | PS2 compatibility | Front USB | Power supply |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 60 GB | (NTSC) | CECHAxx | 90 nm | 90 nm | Hardware-based | 4+flash | 380 W |
| 20 GB | CECHBxx | 4 | ||||||
| 2nd | 60 GB | (PAL) | CECHCxx | Software/Hardware-based | 4+flash | |||
| 80 GB | (NTSC) | CECHExx | 4+flash | |||||
| 3rd | 40 GB | (PAL, NTSC) | CECHGxx CECHHxx |
65 nm | None | 2 | 280 W | |
| 40 GB | CECHJxx | 65 nm | ||||||
| 80 GB | CECHKxx CECHLxx CECHMxx | |||||||
| 160 GB | CECHPxx CECHQxx | |||||||
| 4th "Slim" | 120/250 GB | CECH-20xxA CECH-20xxB |
45 nm | 250 W | ||||
| CECH-21xxA CECH-21xxB |
40 nm | 230 W | ||||||
| 160/320 GB | CECH-25xxA CECH-25xxB | |||||||
| CECH-30xxA CECH-30xxB |
200 W | |||||||
| 5th "Super Slim" | 12/250/500 GB | CECH-40xxA CECH-40xxB CECH-40xxC |
190 W | |||||
| CECH-42xxA CECH-42xxB CECH-42xxC | ||||||||
| CECH-43xxA CECH-43xxB CECH-43xxC |
28 nm |
Model numbers
On all models of the PS3, the last seven characters of the serial number make up the console's model number. This begins with "CECH", followed by a letter indicating what model the system is. The last two characters of the model number indicate what region the system is from.
| Model number | Release date[9] | Model | Regions |
|---|---|---|---|
| CECHAxx | November 2006 | 60 GB | 00 01 06 07 12 (JP, NA) |
| CECHBxx | November 2006 | 20 GB | 00 01 07 12 (JP, NA) |
| CECHCxx | March 2007 | 60 GB | 02 03 04 08 (EU/PAL) |
| CECHDxx | (Unreleased) | 20 GB | (EU/PAL) |
| CECHExx | August 2007 | 80 GB | 01 05 06 11 12 (NA) |
| CECHFxx | (Unreleased) | 80 GB | (NA) |
| CECHGxx | October 2007 | 40 GB | 01 03 04 05 06 07 08 11 12 (NA, EU/PAL) |
| CECHHxx | October 2007 | 40 GB | 00 01 04 05 06 07 08 11 12 (JP, NA, EU/PAL) |
| CECHIxx | (Unreleased) | 40 GB | |
| CECHJxx | August 2008 | 40 GB | 00 02 03 04 (JP, EU/PAL) |
| CECHKxx | August 2008 | 80 GB | 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 11 12 (NA, EU/PAL) |
| CECHLxx | October 2008 | 80 GB | 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 11 12 (JP, NA, EU/PAL) |
| CECHMxx | October 2008 | 80 GB | 03 (UK) |
| CECHNxx | (Unreleased) | 80 GB | |
| CECHOxx | (Unreleased) | 80 GB | |
| CECHPxx | October 2008 | 160 GB | 00 01 03 04 05 06 07 12 (JP, NA, EU/PAL) |
| CECHQxx | April 2009 | 160 GB | 00 (JP) |
| CECH-20xxA | September 2009 | 120 GB | 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 11 12 (JP, NA, EU/PAL) |
| CECH-20xxB | October 2009 | 250 GB | 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 11 12 (JP, NA, EU/PAL) |
| CECH-21xxA | March 2010 | 120 GB | 00 01 03 04 05 07 12 (JP, NA, EU/PAL) |
| CECH-21xxB | March 2010 | 250 GB | 00 01 03 04 05 07 12 (JP, NA, EU/PAL) |
| CECH-25xxA | July 2010 | 160 GB | 00 01 02 04 05 06 07 08 12 (JP, NA, EU/PAL) |
| CECH-25xxB | July 2010 | 320 GB | 00 01 02 04 05 06 07 08 11 12 (JP, NA, EU/PAL) |
| CECH-30xxA | July 2011 | 160 GB | 00 01 02 04 05 06 07 08 11 12 (JP, NA, EU/PAL) |
| CECH-30xxB | July 2011 | 320 GB | 00 01 02 04 05 06 07 08 11 12 (JP, NA, EU/PAL) |
| CECH-40xxA | October 2012 | 12 GB | 00 01 02 04 05 07 08 11 12 |
| CECH-40xxB | September 2012 | 250 GB | 01 (NA) |
| CECH-40xxC | September 2012 | 500 GB | 02 (EU/PAL) |
| CECH-42xxA | June 2013 | 12 GB | 00 01 04 05 07 08 11 12 |
| CECH-42xxB | June 2013 | 250 GB | 01 (NA) |
| CECH-42xxC | June 2013 | 500 GB | 02 (EU/PAL) |
| CECH-43xxA | May 2014 | 12 GB | 00 01 04 05 07 08 11 12 |
| CECH-43xxB | May 2014 | 250 GB | 01 (NA) |
| CECH-43xxC | May 2014 | 500 GB | 02 (EU/PAL) |
Key: NA – North America, EU/PAL – Europe/PAL region, JP – Japan, UK – United Kingdom
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Region codes
| Number | Region |
|---|---|
| 00[15] | Japan |
| 01[16] | North America |
| 02[17] | Australia & New Zealand |
| 03[18] | United Kingdom & Ireland |
| 04[19] | Europe, Middle East, and Africa |
| 05[20] | Korea |
| 06[21] | Southeast Asia |
| 07[22] | Taiwan |
| 08[23] | Russia & India |
| 09 | China |
| 10 | (Unused) |
| 11[24] | Latin America |
| 12[25] | Hong Kong |
