OT - The Teraflop age has dawned

[VVanks]

Introducing the PS3

 

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 gigaflops

 

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-based processing)

 

SYSTEM FLOATING POINT PERFORMANCE:

2 teraflops

 

and the Xbox 360

 

Graphics Processor and Memory

Graphics Processor Custom ATI Processor

Graphics Core Clock Speed 500MHz

System Memory 512MB, 700MHz DDR

Vector Units 1 VMX-128 unit per core (3 total)

CPU Math Performance 9 Billion Dot Product Operations per Second

System Memory Bandwith 22.4GB/s, 256GB/s to EDRAM

Memory Architecture Unified Memory Architecture

Shaders 48-way Parallel Floating Point Dynamically-Scheduled, 48 billion Operations/s

Video Memory 10MB Embedded DRAM (512MB UMA)

Fill Rate (pixels) 16 Gigasamples/s using 4X MSAA

Fill Rate (triangles) 500 Million/s

 

Processor

Processor Core Spec 3 Cores, 2 hardware threads per core

Marketing Performance Measurement 1 TFLOP

Processor Clock Speed 3.2GHz (3 Cores)

L2 Cache 1MB

Processor Custom IBM PowerPC CPU

 

Lets play Lomac on them!

[Roman G]

Yes, both consoles hardware-specs are very good news. I never thought I will want console - but the specs are excelent ... so I don't know ... The only consoles spec not better than current PCs is the memory size (512MB for sum of system memory & GPU memory).

 

Let's see how soon the games FULLY utilizing the console hardwares will arrive. I think it will take at least a year ...

[Groove]

Yesterday i saw the first ingame videos of the PS3. This is unbelievable. Its like rendered movies, but its realtime !

[Force_Feedback]

Great preformance, but bear in mind that these consoles will be sold in a year, and are designed to last roughly six years to come, so pcs will eventually catch up. BUT, consoles are designed and optimised for games, thus giving better preformance with lower specs than a pc. Yet tv screens are the bottle neck IMHO.

[Fish]

Yet tv screens are the bottle neck IMHO.

 

HDTV will take care of that....