Epic has first Playstation 3 hardware

[mckmas8808]

The Graphics Core is also held back. I will have to do some research to find out what its held back to though.

 

[Brad Grenz]

The GPU is locked to the system bus which runs at half the CPU's frequency.

 

[mckmas8808]

So Brad what you're saying is once the CPU is totally unlocked that will automatically unlock the rest of the GPU?

 

[donkeyskin]

hello. long time lurker....

i have some insight into the PSP talk. Sony is putting a lot of restrictions on what devs can do with this thing. it's very frustrating. i'm not so sure Sony is going to allow anyone to use the full clock unless they make a new battery (doesn't seem likely). it's locked out right now for everybody. they also want to limit streaming. searching the disc kills the battery.

 

[Brad Grenz]

So Brad what you're saying is once the CPU is totally unlocked that will automatically unlock the rest of the GPU?

Yes.

 

[jvd]

So Brad what you're saying is once the CPU is totally unlocked that will automatically unlock the rest of the GPU?

Yes.

yes i agree , that is the way its set up. I really do wonder how battery life will be with both the chips at max

 

[Fafalada]

Actually the GPU/bus and CPU aren't running in sync - If you want to, you could set CPU to 1mhz and still keep GPU at 100+.

There's definately potential to optimize battery performance with proper power management, something early software hasn't really been doing yet afaik.
For example, in RidgeRacers the area that eats battery fastest is the game-menus, not gameplay.