Actual picture of RSX chip
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I think it just goes back to the point of, everything else aside, would it even be possible to have a silicon sample of RSX yet?
And if not (which is my own take - assuming future tape-out), is there any practical purpose to having a 'proxy chip' made for development reasons over at PS3 HQ?
We're looking at real chip packaging, no doubt there I think - but just because it has 'RSX' on it doesn't mean we understand what exactly we're looking at.
And if not (which is my own take - assuming future tape-out), is there any practical purpose to having a 'proxy chip' made for development reasons over at PS3 HQ?
We're looking at real chip packaging, no doubt there I think - but just because it has 'RSX' on it doesn't mean we understand what exactly we're looking at.
Megadrive1988
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I'm sure the chip / package is real, but that it has nothing to do with Nvidia's RSX Reality Synthesizer for PlayStation3.
mckmas8808
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This thread is real interesting. Kinda reminds me of a Unsolved Mysteries show with the wierd music and all. 
JF_Aidan_Pryde
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Daisy chain sounds like something to do with the whole redundency thing KK was talking about.
PC-Engine said:
I'm not 100% sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing...
It's clearly a bad thing. Similar to, though not quite as bad, as the 16 to 32 PS2 idea.london-boy said:
By the time the PS4 is upon us, no developer will want to work on the RSX save for PSP2 work.
Inane_Dork said:
I was thinking the same thing.
More of the same, just faster and bigger, or new features new techniques new philosophy?
That's baloney. PS4 comes with realtime raytracing from nVidia's next console GPU.
BOOMEXPLODE
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The pin layout is a little different, obviously. But I think both pictures are genuine. RSX seems to be a little larger, atleast the package is. I think this is because of the cooling methods they plan to use: G70 will use a large vented heatsink that forms a "wind tunnel" over the CPU, while RSX will probably use a block heatsink with a fan on top of it (like the first PS2s did).
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Inane_Dork said:
actually it was 16 to 64 PS2s (GSCube)
agreed.
Should be more than just a little though, considering RSX will only have 128-bit memory I/F. That's upwards of 300 pins less on the package, if not more, with all the extra power and grounds needed to balance the signal pins.BOOMEXPLODE said:
And there's still a missing rounded corner on the bottom picture. If it was up to me to decide, I'd say it's a fake so talking about pins and shit on a fake is just a waste of time.
What are you talking about?
PS2 never ever used a cooler like that; early gen PS2 had a die-cast aluminium pin/fin cooler with a heatpipe baked into it. Xbox did however have a traditional hsf stuck on top of the GPU. And you can be sure there won't be a lump of metal with a fan on top in PS3 either; where would it fit? The casing's so narrow! The only reasonable solution will be some sort of cross-flow cooling arrangement.
FlexIO is a low pincount bus interface. I really doubt it requires (many) more pins than PCIe 16x. Certainly not anywhere the amount that a 128-bit DDR3 I/F does.
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