Guden,
That's the problem. There is no official confirmation. Also, those working for the big gaming media websites and magazines are not even asking about the RSX. Sony is not commenting, NVIDIA is not talking, and on the rare occasion the three letters of RSX are spoken it's only in passing.
We have nothing to grasp but straws here. Some of what we already though we knew has even been removed from Sony's websites. Developers usually (except in rare cases in which heroic developers dare to give a *few* details) just say they can't speak about it due to NDAs which is of course understandable.
In the rare case someone who might know something about the RSX speaks about it's features we all need to jump on the information before it's put into the memory hole or deleted from the web. Heck, I saw one official next-gen game forum claim their policy was to delete any leaks of information about any console or game. Delete any information that could potentially be a leak of such information. And to also delete any information that was claimed to be a leak regardless if the information was already commonly available. They had to do this due to NDA and legal reasons.
Basically, those of us who are facinated with the RSX and are not game developers programming for the thing are very frustrated right now. The PS3 seems to be coming together very nicely in our minds and we know a good bit about the console and it's components. We all know about the memory types, the FlexIO is pretty strait forward, the CELL is well documented, and Blu-ray is obviously well understood. But when it comes to the GPU it's like there is a black stony silence.
I'm at the point every time I hear about the CELL processor which is talked about again, and again, and again in interviews about the PS3 or it's games I just want to vomit. Yes, it's interesting. Yes, the CELL is very powerful. But we keep on hearing the same thing five thousand times over. The CELL is used for physics, animation, sound, vertex work, and it's SPEs are very powerful. We know that by now. However, what we don't know is the full and complete nature of the RSX. Everytime I hear a developer go on and on about the CELL while just brushing past the RSX like it does not exist I'm appauled. I'm not angry at them of course, but the fact the secrecy is so tight they are terrified to talk about it due to the fact they could violate an NDA. So when someone is interviewed and gives even a tiny nugget of information about the RSX I am thrilled, because it's so rare.
This one feature of the RSX is probably nothing too amazing. It's probably a nice feature to have. And it's certainly possible that the G70/NV47 has the same feature. But how are we to know if Sony does not reveal the specifics about the RSX?
Quite frankly, I wish Sony would stop trying to hide this strong piece of hardware and act like they have a little bit of pride in the GPU of their latest console. They need to show it off and tell us all about it instead of trying to stick 100 layers of NDA's on top of it.
