World Exclusive: Playstation 4 (Orbis) unveiled [Updated: GPU Info inside]

One week ago we published a detailed report about Durango, the next-gen Microsoft system. The company has built a powerful system, more than Wii U. Now, we would like to share with you the specs for Orbis, Sony’s alternative machine for the next-gen. After you, gents and ladies.

LIVERPOOL SOC

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

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 intructions/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

UPDATE: some people is confused about the GPU, here you have more info about it:

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 bandwith

8 Render backends:

– 32 color ops/cycle

– 128 depth ops/cycle

– Can utilize full memory bandwith

All this info is subject to change in the future by Sony.

So, we have a new technical war between Durango and Orbis. Which one will be better? Discuss. Leave a comment please.

We will give more detailed information about each component in future articles.