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Table 1 PS3 hardware specifications. This table shows the various hardware components of the Sony Play Station 3 (PS3) game console with details on size of each of them

From: Towards high performance computing for molecular structure prediction using IBM Cell Broadband Engine - an implementation perspective

CPU Architecture

PPE: PowerPC 64 bit

SPE: SPE Architecture

Clock Speed

PPE: 3.2 GHz

SPE (each): 3.2 GHz

L2 Cache (PPE Only)

512 KB

PPE Memory

256 MB XDR

Memory Bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

SPE Memory

256 KB SRAM

Single Precision

PPE: 25.6 GFLOPS

SPE: 25.6 GFLOPS

Double Precision

PPE: 6.4 GFLOPS

SPE: 14 GLOPS