PS3 Vs PS2 Hardware

PS2 CPU: 128-bit @ 294.912 MHz GPU Frequency: 147.456MHz Embedded DRAM: 4MBDRAM Bus Bandwidth: 48GB/s Drawing Rate: 75 million Polygons per second Screen Resolution: Variable from 256 x 224 to 1280 x 1024

PS3 CPU 3.2GHz Cell Processor GPU Custom "RSX" or "Reality Synthesizer" design co-developed by NVIDIA and Sony: Frequency: 550 MHz Texture bandwidth: 47.5 GB/sec Vertices Performance: 1.1 billion vertices per second