CES '05

[Jov]

Processors double in speed/power every 18 months,

Uh...have you been paying attention to the industry for the past 2 years?

Did you not read the full post? Anyway we're talking about low 100s of MHz.. not X GHz here.

I did emphasized the fact Moore’s Law was used not to put an expectation of the GCN to be 1.6x PS2, but how tech could have advanced, and thus why the GCN is cheaper and overall better performer.

 

[Jov]

Re: playstation will be more powerfull

After SIGGRAPH 2000 demo, the same demo was shown in Japan and this is the report (machine trans. by Excite) According to it, first they showed the trailer of the FF movie, then picked up a certain scene from it and rendered it in real-time by GSCube (GSCube 16, GS1-32 * 16 = 1 billion polygons). Its geometry was pre-calculated and only shading was done in real-time. Modules in GSCube were split into 4, each assigned face, body, hair and background. The reporter writes although it's a pretty impressive demo that can change camera, lighting, reflection etc. in real-time, it's not as good as the final trailer itself in terms of graphics quality. Kutaragi admitted it too and talked about their future plan about GSCube 64 in 2001, x100 power chip in 2002, and PS3 with x1000 power EE3+GS3 in 200x.

Thanks!