More on Sony’s Next-gen PS4 Specs Revealed

More on Sony’s Next-gen PS4 Specs Revealed

Following our previous PlayStation 4, PS4, leaked specs, new information regarding the SoC devkit has surfaced. Below are all the details courtesy of VGLeaks.

LIVERPOOL SOC

• Custom implementation of AMD Fusion APU Architecture (Accelerated Processing Unit)
• Provides good performance with low power consumption
• Integrated CPU and GPU
• Considerably bigger and more powerful than AMD’s other APUs

PS4 Liverpool SoC Diagram

CPU:

• Orbis contains eight Jaguar cores at 1.6 Ghz, arranged as two “clusters”
• Each cluster contains 4 cores and a shared 2MB L2 cache
• 256-bit SIMD operations, 128-bit SIMD ALU
• SSE up to SSE4, as well as Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
• One hardware thread per core
• Decodes, executes and retires at up to two instructions/cycle
• Out of order execution
• Per-core dedicated L1-I and L1-D cache (32Kb each)
• Two pipes per core yield 12,8 GFlops performance
• 102.4 GFlops for system

GPU:

• GPU is based on AMD’s “R10XX” (Southern Islands) architecture
• DirectX 11.1+ feature set
• Liverpool is an enhanced version of the architecture
• 18 Compute Units (CUs)
• Hardware balanced at 14 CUs
• Shared 512 KB of read/write L2 cache
• 800 Mhz
• 1.843 Tflops, 922 GigaOps/s
• Dual shader engines
• 18 texture units
• 8 Render backends

Memory:

• 4 GB unified system memory, 176 GB/s
• 3.5 available to games (estimate)

Storage:

- High speed Blu-ray drive

• single layer (25 GB) or dual layer (50 GB) discs
• Partial constant angular velocity (PCAV)
• Outer half of disc 6x (27 MB/s)
• Inner half varies, 3.3x to 6x

- Internal mass storage

• One SKU at launch: 500 GB HDD
• There may also be a Flash drive SKU in the future

Networking:

• 1 Gb/s Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n WIFI, and Bluetooth

Peripherals:

• Evolved Dualshock controller
• Dual Camera
• Move controller

Extra:

• Audio Processor (ACP)
• Video encode and decode (VCE/UVD) units
• Display ScanOut Engine (DCE)
• Zlib Decompression Hardware

Each CU contains dedicated:

• ALU (32 64-bit operations per cycle)
• Texture Unit
• L1 data cache
• Local data share (LDS)
• About  14 + 4 balance:
  • 4 additional CUs (410 Gflops) “extra” ALU as resource for compute
  • Minor boost if used for rendering
• Dual Shader Engines:
  • 1.6 billion triangles/s, 1.6 billion vertices/s
• 18 Texture units
  • 56 billion bilinear texture reads/s
  • Can utilize full memory bandwidth
• 8 Render backends:
  • 32 color ops/cycle
  • 128 depth ops/cycle
  • Can utilize full memory bandwidth