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PS3 GPU: 1.8 TFLOPs ~ Teraflops
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| http://ps3.ign.com/articles/614/614682p1.html
Playstation3's Nvidia-designed graphics processor ~ GPU:
-RSX aka Reality Synthesizer.
-runs at 550 Mhz
-has 1.8 TFLOPS / Teraflops floating point performance.
-is said to be more than twice as powerful as GeForce 6800
-300 million transistors (unconfirmed)
- Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
sounds like PS3 will be at least as powerful as SGI's Infinite Reality
16-pipe rack systems. (late 1990s)
each of their pipes could do about 10 million textured polygons/sec with
everything on.
the PS2 was about as powerful as 2 Infinite Reality pipes. (20 mpps)
PS3 should easily rival or surpass 16 Infinite Reality pipes (160 mpps)
since Xbox360 pushes 500 million polys/sec and 1500 million vertices/sec
(i'm going by the specs floating around) then PS3 should be almost twice
as powerful.
my guess: 3000 million (3 billion) vertices/sec - 1000 million (1
billion) polygons/sec
even if you figure in that that is PEAK theoretical performance, even 1/5
of that: 200 million polys/sec
and 600 million vertices/sec is on par with a 16 pipe Infinite Reality
system which would cost $100,000 PER pipe, IIRC.
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| http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/0...ws_6124681.html
"Sony also unveiled the PS3's graphics chip, the RSX "Reality Synthesizer"
based on Nvidia technology. The GPU will be capable of 128bit pixel
precision, 1080p resolution, some of the highest HD resolution around. The
RSX also has 512mb of graphics render memory and is capable of 100 billion
shader operations and 51 billion dot products per second. It also has over
300 million transistors, larger than any processor available commercially
today. It will be manufactured using the 90nm process with 8 layers of
metal. The RSX is more powerful than two GeForce 6800 Ultra video cards,
which would cost roughly $1000 total if bought today."
so it is 300 million transistors. that's twice as much as Xbox360's R500
GPU.
the Xbox360 can do 9 billion dot products per second. the PS3 can do 51
billion.
Xbox360 can do 48 billion shader operations per second, PS3 can do 100
billion. shader operations per second
it's clear that PS3 is less of a leap over Xbox360 that PS2 was over
Dreamcast, but, PS3 is still more powerful
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| Black Shuck 2005-05-20, 8:31 pm |
| NightSky 421 got up from the bar and shouted: :
quote:
> "Black Shuck" <mark.gillespie@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:428a59a9$0$541$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
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> Even I must concede that Sony will likely "win" the next round of the
> console wars. I'm sure Microsoft will hold it's own with the Xbox 360, but
> I think the only question mark at this point is if people will like the
> controller that comes with the PS3. Maybe there will be after-market
> controllers that more closely follow the ergonomics of the PS2 controllers,
> but we will see. Still, full backwards compatibility will score Sony some
> points with users. I'm not thrilled about selective backwards compatibility
> that the Xbox 360 will have.
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>
Has anyone seen the PSP-PS3 planned integration? It's extremely cool.
The PSP not only acts as a portable game console, but you can use it as
a controller for the PS3, and the display will show ingame stats etc, as
a 2nd monitor to the main screen action. Awesome integration. The
added posibilities of having your media on the PS3 (movies/music) and
being able to access them from whithin you wireless range on the PSP is
alse impressive.
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| Brenden D. Chase 2005-05-20, 8:32 pm |
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"Black Shuck" <mark.gillespie@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:428e1428$0$39087$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net...
quote:
> NightSky 421 got up from the bar and shouted: :
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> Has anyone seen the PSP-PS3 planned integration? It's extremely cool. The
> PSP not only acts as a portable game console, but you can use it as a
> controller for the PS3, and the display will show ingame stats etc, as a
> 2nd monitor to the main screen action. Awesome integration. The added
> posibilities of having your media on the PS3 (movies/music) and being able
> to access them from whithin you wireless range on the PSP is alse
> impressive.
Yes, but not to exclude the fact that you'll be able to access your ps3 from
anywhere in the world and download data from the HDD to the psp, provided
you've got a wireless internet connection where ever you are.
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| Roger Christie 2005-05-21, 8:30 pm |
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"chrisv" <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
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I'm sure that will get you somewhere.
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| Roger Christie 2005-05-23, 8:31 pm |
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"chrisv" <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
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> PSX3 wrote:
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I'm sure that will get you somewhere.
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| Black Shuck 2005-05-23, 8:31 pm |
| NightSky 421 got up from the bar and shouted: :
quote:
> "Black Shuck" <mark.gillespie@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:428a59a9$0$541$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
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>
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> Even I must concede that Sony will likely "win" the next round of the
> console wars. I'm sure Microsoft will hold it's own with the Xbox 360, but
> I think the only question mark at this point is if people will like the
> controller that comes with the PS3. Maybe there will be after-market
> controllers that more closely follow the ergonomics of the PS2 controllers,
> but we will see. Still, full backwards compatibility will score Sony some
> points with users. I'm not thrilled about selective backwards compatibility
> that the Xbox 360 will have.
>
>
Has anyone seen the PSP-PS3 planned integration? It's extremely cool.
The PSP not only acts as a portable game console, but you can use it as
a controller for the PS3, and the display will show ingame stats etc, as
a 2nd monitor to the main screen action. Awesome integration. The
added posibilities of having your media on the PS3 (movies/music) and
being able to access them from whithin you wireless range on the PSP is
alse impressive.
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| Chris Barts 2005-08-18, 12:30 am |
| In: <rbtje.19231$iU.10424@lakeread05>, "Brenden D. Chase" <brenden.chase@NOSPAMHEREgmail.com> wrote:
quote:
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>Yes, but not to exclude the fact that you'll be able to access your ps3 from
>anywhere in the world and download data from the HDD to the psp, provided
>you've got a wireless internet connection where ever you are.
>
Does anybody else see a huge, gaping security hole here?
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