Mercury puts Cell processor on a PCI-E card
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It might be cost. 4 GB DDR2 is going to be lot cheaper than 4 GB XDR.
Look at the price, do you really think 4GB XDR would make any difference :smile:Shifty Geezer said:
There is a limit how much XDR-Chips you can put on each of the 2 Channels (linked serially), apart from each additional chip potentially driving up latency. I`d have to read up for details.
From zee german IT news site heise.de :
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/76293
- the card is called "Cell Accelerator Board" (short CAB)
- the CAB is powered by Yellow Dog Linux, booting off of 32MByte flash-mem
- the host PC can be a Linux or Windows system and will talk through an API with CAB
- the card is only certified for HP Opteron-Workstations so far
The rest of the article is about background infos regarding Mercurys' field of work and some known stuff about STI/Cell.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/76293
- the card is called "Cell Accelerator Board" (short CAB)
- the CAB is powered by Yellow Dog Linux, booting off of 32MByte flash-mem
- the host PC can be a Linux or Windows system and will talk through an API with CAB
- the card is only certified for HP Opteron-Workstations so far
The rest of the article is about background infos regarding Mercurys' field of work and some known stuff about STI/Cell.
No one else seemed to notice, but this line set off alarm bells...
What percentage of this is the ddr2/xdr ram?...
I'm no expert, but can we assume at least half that is drawn by the cell?
If the PS3 runs at 3.2ghz, not 2.8ghz, that would bump that up considerably higher? Would there be process/design differences to affect power draw?
Then there is the RSX.. do we know it's power draw? I would imagine it is somewhere between the ~130w draw of a desktop 7900 and ~50w of the notebook 7900.
Plus ram, bluray and power supply inefficnency...
Given the 360 draws 160W at the plug (from what I've read), could this well mean the PS3 not only is the heaviest but also easily most power hungry console ever?
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I know, a heck of a lot of 'what if', but thats why I ask.
What percentage of this is the ddr2/xdr ram?...
I'm no expert, but can we assume at least half that is drawn by the cell?
If the PS3 runs at 3.2ghz, not 2.8ghz, that would bump that up considerably higher? Would there be process/design differences to affect power draw?
Then there is the RSX.. do we know it's power draw? I would imagine it is somewhere between the ~130w draw of a desktop 7900 and ~50w of the notebook 7900.
Plus ram, bluray and power supply inefficnency...
Given the 360 draws 160W at the plug (from what I've read), could this well mean the PS3 not only is the heaviest but also easily most power hungry console ever?
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I know, a heck of a lot of 'what if', but thats why I ask.
I have the same question, I want to put it on my MacPro.
I guess it depends what you're doing. Assuming the software's there, you could read multiple compressed video streams, decode them and blend with a few effects in realtime. Trouble is it needs the software 
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Can you program? If not, then forget it. At this point, you'll have to write the editing algorithms yourself pretty much.
