PSP NEWS!
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main: 8 MB eDRAM @ 2.6 GB/s (128bit)
sub: 2 MB eDRAM @ 2.6 GB/s (128bit)
VRAM: 2 MB eDRAM 5.3 GB/s (256bit)
Still though, those fine prints said subject to change.
I expect only 2-4 hours of battery life, if everything are running, full speed, backlit, UMD spinning, etc. But with power saving, probably 6-8 hours.
Panajev2001a
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I doubt Sony will cut down/scale back their specs s they have never done that so far: they have upgraded the specs when they changed them ( added 50 MHz to the EE [it was presented in January 1999 at the IEEE conference as a 250 MHz processor] and prolly 25 MHz to the GS ).
Panajev2001a
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PC-Engine said:
Thanks, I think that means it will be about the same size and format as the UX50 but with a control pad in place of the keypad. It will probably be a little thicker though to accommodate the UMD drive. This thing is sounding more expensive each day.
I agree, if they used AOD it would have been so much better
*rimshot*J/K
Well we won't know until they explain what "surface engine" refers to in the rasterizer.
Going by what has been announced, (particularly fillrate) I will make an (un)educated guess - something along the lines of GS with a more consistent design and fixing the obvious things that missed - a more complete blend unit, fixed up texture sampler, and hopefully a multistage loopback.
I'm not ruling out the possibility of more complex blends like DOT3 but I'm
not expecting them either.
Although... consider the platform in this case is making a jump from software rendering only(1995 desktops) to graphic subsystem faster and in many ways more featured then GPUs in 2000 desktops.
And people used to say jump to Voodoo1 was big??????
Panajev2001a said:PC-Engine said:
Thanks, I think that means it will be about the same size and format as the UX50 but with a control pad in place of the keypad. It will probably be a little thicker though to accommodate the UMD drive. This thing is sounding more expensive each day.
I agree, if they used AOD it would have been so much better
J/K
A mini AOD disc would be quite nice actually
So many pages, sorry, I didn't bothered to read the previous ones.
I hope the PSP will have a super crisp and bright screen like one used on the latest sub-notebook PCG-TR1 (I have almost paid for it). But battery life will be a problem with a bright screen.
Ports of Silent Hill 1/2/3 will be great, if it support widescreen gaming mode, more power to it.
I hope the PSP will have a super crisp and bright screen like one used on the latest sub-notebook PCG-TR1 (I have almost paid for it). But battery life will be a problem with a bright screen.
Ports of Silent Hill 1/2/3 will be great, if it support widescreen gaming mode, more power to it.
MfA, Chap etc:
If you expect pixel shaders, I would more or less say you're off your rockers. Handhelds aren't graphics driven, how else could Nintendo sell like a hundred million goddamn gameboy units, huh?!
LOOK, people... Just to have a console that does fast, efficient and good-looking 3D is going to be a trade-up bigger than we've EVER seen before in handhelds. To go spouting off about dot3 and register combiners means just one thing: I... REALLY... DON'T... GET... IT.
If we get some dot3 or combiners, fine. Excellent. Just don't go crying how PSP is doomed and a failure before even coming out on the market if it lacks these things because the people that buy these things (as compared to nerdy internet forum geeks like us) don't CARE if the unit's got it or not and probably couldn't even spot a register combiner if you shoved it into their face! They just want fun games, geddit?!
Panajev:
R4k CPU in N64 had direct-mapped caches AFAIK (16k instructions, 8k data I believe), it lacked a proper FPU (did all instructions in the same pipe), it was single-issue, fully in-order. Pretty much a i486-class device really. Details for the processor inside the RCP are much more sketchy, I have no idea if it can do any floating point at all, what its cache sizes are etc.
I assume the PSP R4ks to be a bit more advanced than this. Quite frankly, it would not be that difficult to accomplish!
*G*
If you expect pixel shaders, I would more or less say you're off your rockers. Handhelds aren't graphics driven, how else could Nintendo sell like a hundred million goddamn gameboy units, huh?!
LOOK, people... Just to have a console that does fast, efficient and good-looking 3D is going to be a trade-up bigger than we've EVER seen before in handhelds. To go spouting off about dot3 and register combiners means just one thing: I... REALLY... DON'T... GET... IT.
If we get some dot3 or combiners, fine. Excellent. Just don't go crying how PSP is doomed and a failure before even coming out on the market if it lacks these things because the people that buy these things (as compared to nerdy internet forum geeks like us) don't CARE if the unit's got it or not and probably couldn't even spot a register combiner if you shoved it into their face! They just want fun games, geddit?!
Panajev:
R4k CPU in N64 had direct-mapped caches AFAIK (16k instructions, 8k data I believe), it lacked a proper FPU (did all instructions in the same pipe), it was single-issue, fully in-order. Pretty much a i486-class device really. Details for the processor inside the RCP are much more sketchy, I have no idea if it can do any floating point at all, what its cache sizes are etc.
I assume the PSP R4ks to be a bit more advanced than this. Quite frankly, it would not be that difficult to accomplish!
*G*
http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=mbx&sp-a=sp010a7b02
Heard of the above ARM + PVR MBX portable chip? TBR/Free FSAA/Low Power Consumption/32bpp/Supports up to DX8 feature sets.
I mean, since you are having some cool MIP VUs power and fast edram, might as well end it off with a great feature set. I guess its KK choice of fast polygons etc.
Yeay, PSP specs(on paper) is still quite impressive, past the PSX 32bit level, more alone DC level. Though, unless we know more about GBA2 or Xboy(! !), it is hard to make a judgement on how far cool PSP specs could have been.
Heard of the above ARM + PVR MBX portable chip? TBR/Free FSAA/Low Power Consumption/32bpp/Supports up to DX8 feature sets.
I mean, since you are having some cool MIP VUs power and fast edram, might as well end it off with a great feature set. I guess its KK choice of fast polygons etc.
Yeay, PSP specs(on paper) is still quite impressive, past the PSX 32bit level, more alone DC level. Though, unless we know more about GBA2 or Xboy(!
!), it is hard to make a judgement on how far cool PSP specs could have been.
cthellis42 said:
and i have one word for u.... TRAIN!! and another... PLANE!!! (oh hold on u're not supposed to use electronic equipment on a plane, but i do.. usually....)
Looking at that, there Core (1) & Core (2), That's just a Power Point slide presentation number isn't ? Its not 2 seperate cores.
So Rendering Engine refer to the rasterizer bit, and Surface engine refer to the Tesselation bit ?
*Bone (eight), is that mean bone influence ?
From that spec, it doesn't look like its going to have vertex or fragment shader. So those stuff have to be done on the FPU ? Not very clear
