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SONY PLAYSTATION 2 - The console wars are heating up with the addition of Microsoft's Xbox. The Pentium-powered Xbox packs more than three times the graphics performance of competing game consoles, Microsoft says. Co-Developed with experts at Nvidia, the Xbox's custom-designed chip will deliver more than 200 million polygons per second. Realistic gameplay will be delivered by high-performance Intel Pentium III processor technology with streaming SIMD extensions.  

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Technical Specs

  • 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 (CDROM compatible)

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