Playstation3 will support only 1 CPU after all ??

~~Vasot~~ · May 16, 2005, 02:39 PM

Yes, after all the PS3 will have only one CELL, due to cost issues, and the decision of making a GPU on PS3 by NVIDIA, is due largely to this fact : Only ONE CELL on PS3, so there is no way that this CELL could be used as a multi-purpose processor and as a GPU in the same time ! 256 GFLOPS is not sufficient to do this…gone are the days of DREAMING of a PS3 with 4 CELLS 4*256 GFLOPS = 1024 GFLOPS or 1 teraflops) with 1024 GFLOPS power, allowing the system to do all the graphics stuff plus AI, PHYSICS…
on those CELLS without any need of a GPU, and making the dream of real time ray-tracing finally possible…

Note: XBOX360 has 3 Xenon Cpus and supports MultiCPU operation

Dark Lord · May 16, 2005, 02:52 PM

all rumors and speculations right now. im sure well all know whats really udner the hood in about 2 hours time.

dpagan · May 16, 2005, 03:21 PM

Can't wait to find out. But to be honest there's something about the xbox360, that's pulling me in regardless of what the PS3 has offer.

pr0digal jenius · May 16, 2005, 03:26 PM

I think MS and Nintendo both have Sony's number this round

dpagan · May 16, 2005, 03:32 PM

While sony has always had good backing from japanese developers and microsoft wasn't. The backing microsoft will get from top US developers is crazy, i saw some game videos and microsoft is bringing the smack down this time around. With games that seem to cater the hardcore and more mature of players.

pr0digal jenius · May 16, 2005, 04:11 PM

yep...and nintendo ALWAYS cleans up house on the younger audience

dpagan · May 16, 2005, 09:19 PM

Ouch, sony brought it down hard on microsoft. Damn the PS3 looks sexy, and has the spec's to match.

Dark Lord · May 16, 2005, 09:31 PM

it matched and beat it by a long ways in raw horse power. whats really supriseing though is how the ps3 does it with only 1 cpu, where as the 360 cant come any where near close with 3.

The_Neon_Cowboy · May 17, 2005, 12:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by another-user

all rumors and speculations right now. im sure well all know whats really udner the hood in about 2 hours time.

when it relesaed we will know no sooner and alot of people dreaming of a $4,000 console for $199 are going to be in for suprizes

LuCifer · May 17, 2005, 12:10 AM

I dont know but I have my Dough on the PS3. (Regardless)
What does it Look like? Any links?

~~Vasot~~ · May 17, 2005, 12:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pr0digal jenius

yep...and nintendo ALWAYS cleans up house on the younger audience

Yea for children and teens is OK

XBOX and PS has more games for more mature audience

pr0digal jenius · May 17, 2005, 01:06 PM

yea...nintendo has always been a "family" machine

swimtech · May 17, 2005, 04:20 PM

The new XBox and the PS3 are absolute powerhouses compared to most high end gaming PCs in any home today. Not only that, they have wireless controllers out of the box and will serve as DVD players connecting straight to your brand new HDTV (granted the XBox is 720p versus Sony's 1080p potential - but that still looks great!) - amazing.

I gotta think that a lot of PC gamers are going to rethink upgrading their video card (for 300-400 US) and just buy the console and some games, and let their already excellent PC work a while longer just as it is.

The rumoured price for the XBox is 399.00 US. Sony can't be far off that and Microsoft can afford to sell the machine for just about any price they care to as long as they sell the games. Sony is no slouch in the cash flow department either. Like printers and ink cartridges, the money is in the cartridges, and the games...

cheese_thief · May 18, 2005, 12:20 AM

How can these consoles be so cheap? A lower end Xeon goes for $250 on newegg, so that is $750 for 3, and the XBOX360 is rumored to be $400? When you factor is the special equipment (3 CPU mobo), and other equipment like the video card, that adds up to about $400?

Dark Lord · May 18, 2005, 12:26 AM

the console makers always take a massive price hit when they sell the consoles. all the money they make is in the games and accesories.

lenchmob · May 18, 2005, 10:50 AM

Just for thought:
PS3 Specs

CPU
Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

GPU
RSX @550MHz
1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines

Sound
Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell- base processing)
Memory
256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz

System Bandwidth
Main RAM 25.6GB/s
VRAM 22.4GB/s
RSX 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
SB< 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)

System Floating Point Performance
2 TFLOPS

Storage
Detachable 2.5" HDD slot x 1

I/O
USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x 1
SD standard/mini x 1
CompactFlash (Type I, II) x 1

Communication
Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)

Controller
Bluetooth (up to 7)
USB 2.0 (wired)
Wi-Fi (PSP)
Network (over IP)

AV Output
Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI: HDMI out x 2
Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1
Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1

Disc Media
CD PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD, DualDisc, DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)
DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
Blu-ray Disc: PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE