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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.
In May 2008, IBM introduced the high-performance double-precision floating-point version of the Cell processor, the PowerXCell 8i, [13] at the 65 nm feature size. In May 2008, an Opteron - and PowerXCell 8i-based supercomputer, the IBM Roadrunner system, became the world's first system to achieve one petaFLOPS, and was the fastest computer in ...
TechRadar gave PS3 Slim four and a half stars out of five praising its new smaller size and summed up its review stating "Over all, the PS3 Slim is a phenomenal piece of kit. It's amazing that something so small can do so much". However, they criticized the exterior design and the build quality in relation to the original model. [279]
Not only is the $299 PS3 Slim a skinnier version than its fat bro, it also features a new upgraded Cell processor (jointly developed by IBM, Toshiba, and Sony), according to an IBM spokesman, that ...
A 120 GB Slim model Motorized slot-loading disc cover. This feature is absent in the Super Slim model. The redesigned version of the PlayStation 3 (commonly referred to as the "PS3 Slim" and officially branded "PS3") features an upgradeable 120 GB, 160 GB, [25] [26] 250 GB or 320 GB [25] [26] hard drive and is 33% smaller, 36% lighter and consumes 34% (CECH-20xx) or 45% (CECH-21xx) less power ...
MIPS R3000A-compatible 32-bit RISC CPU MIPS R3051 with 5 KB L1 cache, running at 33.8688 MHz. [2] The microprocessor was manufactured by LSI Logic Corp. with technology licensed from SGI. Features: Initial feature size (process node) was 0.5 micron (500 nm). [3] 850k – 1M transistors [4] Operating performance: 30 MIPS [5] Bus bandwidth 132 MB ...
A PlayStation 3 cluster is a distributed system computer composed primarily of PlayStation 3 video game consoles. Before and during the console's production lifetime , its powerful IBM Cell CPU attracted interest in using multiple, networked PS3s for affordable high-performance computing.
CPU Cores 8 4 8 Threads 8 4 16 Clock speed 1.6 GHz 2.1 GHz 1.5 GHz 3.5 GHz GPU Cores 18 36 2 36 Threads ? ? ? Clock speed 800 MHz 911 MHz 660 MHz 2.23 GHz Ray tracing No Yes Memory 8 GB GDDR5: 1 GB DDR3: 16 GB GDDR6: Ports 1x AUX 2x Front USB 3.0. 1x HDMI 2.0a. 1x AUX 2x USB 3.1. 1x HDMI 2.0a 1x AUX 3x USB 3.1 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x HDMI 1x Front USB 2.0