North American PS2 specs...

[BCYL]

I heard on the radio yesterday that Sony "detune" the North American PS2 processor to only 1/4 power of the Japanese ones in order to save cost... They needed to do this to lower the price to acceptable levels...

I am not sure if this is really true... Can someone confirm this?

 

[8008S]

Muahahhahaa, thats a load of bs.

 

[Haribo]

Hehe.. yeah most likely bs..

But sometimes I wonder how Sony can sell it for so little... cause you get pretty much of the good stuff in there.

Ahh never mind... I´m probably just sucked in by Sony´s marketing

btw... Isn´t there 32mb of Rambus in there?

 

[loogie]

If I remember correctly, it costs about 400-500 to manufacture a playstation. The money is in the licensing and games.

 

[IBhacknU]

Yea.. when's Hard|OCP" gonna tear this thing apart and give us some specs?

 

[StageLeft]

1/4 power I don't think so...if these things are 1/4 power and still look as good as a nice PC system (for now, won't next year of course), then the ones in Japan must be using alien technology if they were 4X as powerful...its BS

 

[Gibson486]

That is BS, however, Sony might switch to .18 fabrication in the future to save cost, but it is unlikely.

 

[Soulflare]

Official PS2 Specifications

CPU: 128 Bit "Emotion Engine"
System Clock: 300 MHz
System Memory: 32 MB Direct Rambus
Memory Bus Bandwidth: 3.2 GB per second
Co-Processor: FPU (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 1)
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: 48 GB Per Second
DRAM Bus width: 2560 bits
Pixel Configuration: RGB : Alpha : Z Buffer (24:8:32)
Maximum Polygon Rate: 75 Million Polygons Per Second

Sound: "SPU2+CPU"
Number of voices: ADPCM: 48 channel on SPU2 plus definable by software
Sampling Frequency: 44.1 KHz or 48 KHz(selectable)

I/O Processor
CPU Core: Current PlayStation CPU
Clock Frequency: 33.8 MHz or 37.5 MHz (selectable)
Sub Bus: 32 Bit
Interface Types: IEEE1394, Universal Serial Bus (USB)
Communication via PC-Card PCMCIA

Disc Media: DVD-ROM (CD-ROM compatible)

 

[stonerdave]

how is the dvd playback on the ps2? vs apex and $300 players?? thx

 

[beat mania]

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Yea.. when's Hard|OCP&quot; gonna tear this thing apart and give us some specs?
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there's already plenty of other sites that did that.

 

[KarsinTheHutt]

Stick it to RAMBUS! Don't buy PS2 machines!

 

[koldklock]

...or not.