Playstation 4 Specs Guide



PlayStation 4 Console Specs
Feature PS4
CPU AMD x86 Jaguar 1.6GHZ 8-Core








Internet Connection Gigabit Ethernet + WiFi
BlueTooth Bluetooth 2.1 (EDR)
Region Locked No
Price $399 USD
€399 EUR
£349 GBP
$549 AUD

How the PS4 came to be

Playstation 4 Specs Guide








New Toys and Tech







Sony PS4 Conference Video - Specs Detailed:

Eye See You

PlayStation Eye Hardware Specs
Feature PS Eye
External Dimensions 186mm X 27mm X 27mm
Width X Height X Depth
Weight Approximately 183g
Video Frame Rate 1280 X 800 pixels @ 60fps
640 X 400 pixels @ 120fps
320 X 192 pixels @ 240fps
Video Format RAW + YUV (uncompressed)
Lens Dual lenses with a F value/F2.0 fixed focus
Capture Range Approximately 30cm
Field-of-View Approximately 85 degrees
Microphone 4-channel microphone array
Connection Type PS4 dedicated AUX port
Cable Length Approximately 2m

The DualShock 4






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Article by - Collin Mak
Insert Date: 6/3/2013
Article updated: 12/17/14

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first sony already macke investments ad buy povervr and cortex cpu ps4 will hawe cortex a15 32 cores and pover vr sgx series 6 graphic 64 or 32 cores for 100% psvita has cortex a9 quad core 800-1000mhz and povervr gpu sgx 543 quad core max speed is 200mhz ich core maybe they decide to put in ps4 povervr rogue ich core gpu consume 1 wat with 200mhz core speed and product 200 gigaflops 350milion polygons per second and advanced schaders dx 11 but i do not think so be cose sony already macke decision an buyet cortex a15 and sgx povervr for ps4 and no on can buyet be cose sony pay extra to hawe only rights for dos two graphic chip thank no for rogue when they come out in mobile device that will be loool smarphone with rogue iven at half speed is 110 gigaflops and 0,6wat

Sony PS4 @International Tokyo Toy Show 2013

Sony PS4 "Japan Q4 2013" "US & EU Q1 2014" - NVIDIA Project Denver SOC: 20nm CPU ARMv7 Cortex-A15 processor with 8 Cores @3GHz 20nm GPU Nvidia Kepler with 512 Cuda Cores @1GHz/2GHz Video Res Support: 480p 3D, 720p 3D, 1080p 3D, 2160p 2D Audio Support: 8ch 24-bit/96KHz (DTS Neo:X 11.1 Support) Physics: PhysX - Rambus Unified Memory: 20nm 4GB of XDR2 with 500GB/s unified memory bandwidth. - Seagate SSD/HDD Hybrid Hard Drive: 2.5" 8GB SSD with 500GB HDD 7200 RPM Drive SATA 6Gb/s - Sony Blu-ray 8x Drive with 100GB BD discs support. - PS DualShock4 / PS MOVE2 / PS DualEye - USB v3.1 - HDMI v1.4c - Bluetooth v4.1 - Wi-Fi "IEEE 802.11n" - Software: OS: Android 5.0 with Sony UI API: OpenGL ES 3.0/OpenGL 4.3/OpenCL 1.3/OpenVG 1.2/OpenAL 2.2/EGL 1.5/DirectX 11.1

arm is a no-go, no phu*king

arm is a no-go, no phu*king way. anything more than 8 thread is a complete waste of resource (alu only). arm is just tooooooooooooo weak for it's single threaded performance.

not gonna happen

sony will not abandon the cell with a new 16spe cell would kill intel's top processor when u build several $500 million factories to build the current cell u dont throw that away it will not be intel or amd its the cell

oh my god! that is an awesome

oh my god! that is an awesome prediction and is actually likely to happen. very nice prediction sir :)

Lol ;p

lol!!!!! PS4 Will be AMD CPU+GPU already started :p

lol AMD is still around? there x86 CPU is Dead!

AMD CPU+GPU is a bad idea! "already started" Link Please! ARM CPU+GPU is a better idea! for the PS4 ARM Cortex-A15 Quad core + Mali-T658 Quad core :) 2014 cant see AMD on the market with Intel x86 and ARM RISC battle it out at 14nm? Airmont vs ARMv8 The PS4 has to keep cost down, low power, high-end product at the same time ARM's can do this! :) lol

are you mad or r u mad? quad

are you mad or r u mad? quad a15 can barely win a dual-core atom@2ghz. and certainly will not beat a Cell in terms of FPU performance - real world or raw power. as for mali, it doesn't even compete with intel's hd4000. you are so adorable when you are silly - not.

PS4 should use Intel CPU+GPU

Sony should use Intel Intel Atom "Silvermont" Quad Core CPU + Imagination PowerVR "Rogue" Quad Core GPU!! Intel would be a clear winner for the Sony PS4! with there 22nm chips.

Forged by nVidia

Sony will use nVidia's GPU. But it won't use the Cell as a CPU. The clue is in the development of Sony's "Forge Light" engine that is designed specifically by nVidia and Physx. And it is highly likely AMD is making the CPU - because nVidia don't do CPU. Intel won't have anything to do with game consoles. Not in the next 5-7 years anyway. Intel is for the PC x86 and Server platforms and they've already tried games consoles in the past, and failed. nVidia and AMD will always stand above Intel in GPU. And AMD will always give Intel a heck of a fight in CPU. So Sony will have nVidia and AMD in their PS4. And Sony/nVidia's Forge Light engine for Planetside 2 and EQNext, make that very clear that that's what is happening here.

No Optical Drive

If anyone has heard about the rumoured Xbox Next coming with no Optical Media Drive, here is the reason. What shape is a Blu-ray Player or a DVD Player? Well, its shape is a big oblong - not the optical drive, but the unit chassis in which it resides. The physical drive sits in the middle of an oblong unit and all the silicon chips and board reside on the outside of it - and not under it. For obvious reasons. When you think about it, how much space does an Optical Media Drive take up; where is it in the game console; what is underneath it. And what's the biggest problem for a game console... It is no surprise at all to hear that Optical Drives should be left out of game console designs.


Who ever wrote this article knows nothing about hardware. The original PS3 was a SINGLE CORE 3.2 GHZ... Today we hardly even use SINGLE core processors, and it's not a number games. For example a 1.6 Dual Core Processor has about the same speed as the 3.2 processor in the PS3... To make it simple, an 11 inch macbook AIR has the same processing power as a PS3. That being said, a 8GHZ single core processor will likely never exist becasue that technology is antiquated. What might be more realistic is a quad or 8 core processor clocked at around 1.5 to 2GHZ As comparison, the top of the like Mac Pro runs a 2.9 12 core processor, which is INSANELY fast, but expensive.

The Way of the World

Different CPU designs and the way in which transistors are used and the way in which "direct-to-metal" code is efficiently used through them, determines what a processor can do. It took 7 years of specialised "direct-to-the-metal" code, but the Cell in the PS3 when its PPU core and all 6 of its SPE/SPUs are going at 99% efficiency, easily attains 150Gigaflops/sec of compute power at 3.2Ghz. By comparison on x86, Intel's i5-2500k Quad-core CPU achieves 130Gigaflops of compute power at 5Ghz. But you're right about frequency, but completely wrong about other things. A CPU could be made at 22nm that had a single core; similiar to one of the cores in Intel's i5 or i7 range. Except this core could be clocked at 8Ghz. The reason the world has moved to multi-cores is really because of Intel's x86 control of the technology of computers. AMD followed it too. And so for decades, we have been familiarly type-cast to believe they are the future. They are not. The only future they have is how big a company like Intel is willing to hold on to x86 for as long as they can sustain viability. PS3's Cell if taken out of the PS3 box and put into an environment similiar to a high-end PC rig, with the same fabrication technology, would likely reach 9Ghz in frequency with the best that heat-pipe air-cooling could provide. A 9Ghz Cell1 at 22nm and 1.15v would have a TDP similiar to its 65nm counterpart, only now its Gigaflop rating would be in the region of 500. Why has this not occurred? IBM and Sony do not want to "interrupt" the flow of "fiscal businness opportunity" that exists with x86 architecture anbd the PC server market as a whole. Don't believe me? My IQ is 148 and I tend to side toward the "nature of the beast" in some opinions that I have; but as it is the gaming industry we are talking about, there is no safety net I need to fall into to be concerned about Intel basically slowing down the computer industry by at least 15 years. At this stage of 2012, we have an incredible knowledge of silicon technology; decades ahead of what Intel, AMD, IBM, Sony, Toshiba have brought to the table in the last 10 years. What they already have now, has already been done - they just won't let it completely disrupt x86 and the way we use technology currently. It's far too big for business. Would you be surprised to here that IBM/Toshiba and Sony actually had a 6Ghz 65nm Cell1 and that it functioned at 1.15v. I don't know what the Flops rating was as it was not disclosed, but I would guess around 300Gigaflops. If that was ever released in 2010, x86 would have been completely wiped out in the following 2 years to 2012... today. That's why Cell quietly returned to the shadows.

Grammar correction

here/hear (Microsoft Spell Checker fails me again; *note to self* turn it off)

Bravo. It's refreshing to see

Bravo. It's refreshing to see an intelligent post on here amidst the maddeningly idiotic postings from low-grade morons, such as the "11 inch MacBook" comparison. Sigh...


U do Know That This AMD Processor is A, APU ? ( Accelerated Processing Unit ) It has a graphic Card whit 480 Gflops!! And it will be Crossfired whit a 7670 And that has 768 Gflops , sooo It has more Compute power And thats only The Graphic part

The A-P-U of C-E-L-L

I do know. But lets just ask the question: what is an APU. An APU is a CPU that is trying to be something else - it's called "Marketing AMD". All it does is combine non-linear execution paths - like a GPU - and linear execution cores, into one die. That's it. That's the big change that AMD are trying to define as "APU". Intel won't define this. Why? Well, one of the reasons is because Intel is "CPU x86". They don't want to idealise AMD's interpretation of the linear path execution x86 as being a limited piece of junk in the 2nd decade of this century. But here's the next question: what is the Cell. The Cell is an APU in the exacting sense that it is a first-of-its-kind to attempt that gravitation toward "not another f* x86 core again". The reason you don't see what a Cell could really do, is that gamers have only seen the Cell all by itself. What could a games console do with 4x Cell (near non-linear execute) with a Kepler GPU (with none of the x86 garbage a part of it)? Here's the answer: Only what an x86 APU could possibly dream of for a further 10 years well into 2020. Intel and AMD are just slowing everything down. x86 is their anvil; but it comes with its own weight.

Course Correction

"gravitates" (not gravitation) Remind me to turn off Microsoft's spell checking.

The A-P-U of Failure

Further from the APU of Cell... Combing a CPU and GPU on one die is the dumbest thing in heigtening the problem of frequency of cores I have ever heard of. But that is not unexpected in the realm of x86. Multi-core CPU should be replaced with Single-core frequency designs that are specifically designed to not fool anyone into thinking that Mulit-core is the future. Could a single-core CPU have a frequency of 10Ghz at 22nm. Could a CPU, not x86-bound, be put in an architecture with far fewer limitations - unrestrained. Yes it can. The "No" part is where Intel simply won't budge on the matter - knowing that they can. Therefore, AMD won't either; their APU is nothing but a Nehalem under the guise of "even though it's x86, it's the future as far as we are concerned." It's been said before, but when Intel announced Nehalem, everything should have changed. It didn't. It just stayed on the same course. The x86 course of "going nowhere in the face of IBM/Toshiba/Sony and Cell". Which is why IBM buried it.

ps4 specs

the ps3 uses the cell cpu meaning it has one "control" cpu but has 8 SPUs for spu is disabled for security and the other for the operating system. the cpu and each spu all run at 3.2 ghz. so a mackbook air has nowhere near the same amount of processing power as a ps3. I think they should use an upgraded version of the cell and mid/high end nvidia card like the gtx 650/750. they should have a hybrid hard drive. 320gb standard hard drive and 20gb ssd for games to run off of the ssd for improved game performance and loading.

I think they should just

I think they should just upgrade everything from the ps3. dont get rid of anything.


No no no no no, and NO. Yes, I agree that this person who wrote this article has limited knowledge of hardware. The original PS3 utilizes an 8SPE CELL BROADBAND ENGINE which is NOT a single core processor. SIX SPE's (somewhat equivalent to cores) are used during game play (similar to XBOX 360's 3 Core processor hyperthreaded) and 2 are reserved. In fact, this is one of the most powerful processors on the planet. ~200 GFLOPS of performance is equivalent to lets say 40 single core pentium processors. The Mac Pro uses 2 6 core intel processors, not a single 12 core. The six core Intel Core i7-3960X has a floating point performance of 119.45 GFLOPS...just an fyi. That shows how powerful that Cell Processor is.

FANBOY failure

it doesnt matter how great the hardware the console is lame and flawed in to many ways its a console that hasnt utilized what it can actualy do but instead prevented people from doing just that so in my book its lame so stop being such a fan boy untill sony make a console where it lets you use the features rather than stripping them away doesnt matter how good the tech unless you can actualy use it , its useless!!


that's where you're wrong. It's "useless" to you. not others

who cares

who cares he obviously meant its useless to him an hey i agree with him so go sleep with your ps3 fanboy!!!

I 2nd that

i 2nd that that guy souns like he might cry cus he luvs his ps3 tooooooooo much totaly agree with dude sony ripped us thanks for the bs promises sony !


you guys are all morons. Seriously, He is just stating facts and putting things into perspective. I read nowhere that he loves his ps3, he is simply laying down numbers and facts of the hardware specs. You on the other hand have nothing useful to come with so you resort to attacking him on a personal lvl. Fail-

re morons

wow some1 must of hit a nerve there an clearly there stateing facts too! the dude is cleary rite in what he states about the console so why jump on the band wagon or do you just like to feel part of something why should we care about the 1 guy listin specs for a console that doesnt utilize the tech it has hmm!! an in reference of lovein the console there obvious on about the dude complainin it is usefull for him! an i agree with the the fanboy failure post ps3= dissapointment i loved ps untill the ps3 , lame exclusives late dlc compared to 360 constant server issues poor internet bad ports been hacked an shut off for over a month , product recalls over priced games no in game party chat and software strip backs etc the console is a flop who cares if its got blueray face it fanboys the 360 beats ps3 hands down an only MORONS would think otherwise stats dont lie an its not about tech unless its being used effectively so no dumbass the FAIL is on your part!!!

360 HAS outsold ps3!

Stats dont lie! The xbox 360 has sold more total units than ps3. I have only purchased 1 ps3 fat version while my friends have purchased multiple 360's each because of the lovely RROD. Poor internet? been hacked? Get a router and password protect it... moron. I cant wait for the 720 to come out so that the cross platform games will no longer be "tailored down" on the ps3 so the xbox fanboys wont have to cry about how their game only runs at 4fps or how the high res versions wont fit on 1 disk. Over priced games? Xbox, ps3 AND pc ALL have over priced games! Just don't be a sheep and wait a couple months and it will get cheaper. Or are you just complaining about the PS3 because you can not illegally download and burn games easily like on an xbox? Sounds like the only real problem you listed was your own lack of patience...

re 360 HAS outsold ps3!

prat is all i can say enough people on here keep going on about 360's rrod problem but lets not forget the ps3 has ylod an i know loads of people who have had to churn through multiple playstations so stop talking bs an where you going with downloading games illegaly are you serious i pay for legit games not intrested in knock offs an you can keep singing about all this jazz about res an an disk space do you even check your tech news both next gen consoles are going to be run on almost identical tech an yeah the ps3 does have power in it but its wasted as its not been utilized you no longer have linux no emotion chip poor internet an bad servers an hey the whole of psn was shut down for well over a month thats what i mean by hacked that has never an will never happen to the 360 so pull your head out your asss and stop being a fairy

a fan boy that can't see the

a fan boy that can't see the real things just think about 1 min you found that the Xbox live services going down for 1.5 month that no one can't access to it but they give free gaming to guy how lose their accounts. sorry about my bad English.

re a fan boy that can't see the

maybe you should learn english then because it was the psn network that went down not the xbox live an the games that psn palmed its customers off with was adismial to say the least many off my friends on psn deleted there accounts and moved to xbox after that and havent looked back since , you may have to pay for xbox live but for all the services provided atleast its clear they have there customers intrests at heart unlike sony shafting people every chance they get.

no u r wrong

i fully understand cpu architecture and design and a 1.6 Ghz IS NOT the same as a 3.2 single due to having to parralell tasks and the actual processing going on also it has 8 threads which makes it somewhat of an 8 core with 1 reserved for yield and one for the os it is an EXTREMELY powerful system with parts that ARE NOT commercially available so it would be unfair to compare this to a pc...for the pcs sake as this uses like it says in the article XDR ram which is not the same as the DDR3 you know and love in your pcs and macs. all this i know from TONS of experience with high end and low end computers also a mac will NEVER rival ANY sony device as the mac os junks the hardware and makes the device useless. also you know you should not say the word never in the field of computers because in 1984 when the pcjunior was coming out people never believed in a processor over 10-20 Mhz let alone our oced 5 GHZ beasts of today. also having an 8 ghz single would allow for a small yet agile processor therefore good for small devices or gamesystems. plus in the article it is a 16 thread processor. all in all everything said in this aticle is entirely plausible and you should do some research before trying to go hatin' u make urself look like u know nothing about hardware :P

ACTUALLY amd set a world

ACTUALLY amd set a world record with a single core processor at over 8 ghz so yeah ur wrong about the 8ghz thing

and another thing the amd

and another thing the amd phenom 3 8 core is far faster than youre talking about you dont seem to know very much about processors considering phenom 2 can over clock 4.2 ghz per core with the asus motherboard with an onboard ai bridge that allows each core to work independent from each other


can your macbook play crysis2 and such new gen games in full hd? yeah... didn't think so

Knows nothing?

single cored? where have you been reading this. it has 1 core with 2 threads sorting the data back and forth to 7 (1 disabled) other cores, on the same chip. These 7 cores can not "think" on it's own, but the 1 core handles the thinking, while the 7 others do the dirty work. So calling it a 1-core is about as wrong as it gets!

ram not cpu

dude what grade are you in? or where's your reading comprehensions? the 8GHZ he was talking about applied only to the ram. he said nothing about an 8GHZ processor. L2Read!

Lol ?

Ps3 has no single core. It has an asynchron architecture with 1 PPE and 8 SPE. One is deactivated to increase yields and one is only doing the OS + Security. Makes 1 PPE and 6 SPE free for games. The PPE has 2 Threads while the SPEs have 1 each. That makes 8 Threads total. Thats like older Intel Quadcores. They also had 8 Threads. 2 for each core. The Cell has even today no reason to hide. Its far away from the top Desktop CPUs like I7. But it definetly beats an 11 inch Macbook. The GPU on the other hand is antiquated.


If it's not backwards compatible, I won't buy it.

Da best

PS3 is ancient, PC FTW (you flamin yet)


Amiga has a superior operating system.


It aint worth the money if it doesn't have backwards compatibility. Why because why am im paying for a new console that doesnt have that special feature all the original ps3's have backwards compatibility with ps2 games why the 4 doesnt have backwards compatibility with the ps3 ?

blu-ray format change to SDXC cards

I think the PS4 will not use the Blu-Ray, but use SDXC 300mbps and be read only with half and the other half will be user data. This way you can take saved games to friend’s machines, and continue were you left off with saved games.

memory cards

I have seen SDXC 300MB/s & XQD 1GB/s. I wonder which will show up first?

backward compatibility

This way the with a game on a card would make portability very easy, and a Blu-Ray drive for backward compatibility would work well!

link of card, XQD

Very cool!


Wow. my ps3 is powerful already even better processing and graphics?

backwards compatibility...

... this is the most important thing for me. I don't care about better graphic or 3D if the games itself are going down - better graphic , more effects, no content, no story... more stupid year after year. I have a lot of games on PS3 (and on PS2 too - my PS3 has backwards compatibility), I dont want 2 consoles - I want one. If I need to use two I'll pass. The same way I passed PS VITA. Maybe in 2-3 years I will look at it again. For now - not interested.

backwards compatibility

There better be backwards compatibility on the PS4 for PS1, PS2, & PS3 too..... otherwise screw sony..


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