What will Sony add to their RSX GPU development?

[Farid]

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[version]

 

[leechan25]

What is that?

 

[bobthebub]

Source for that pic is web.axelero.hu/varga1973/rsx.JPG, I guess we are expected to make of it what we wish.

 

[bobthebub]

Sorry for the double post (I can't edit)


What I make of it is Global Cache! EDRAM on RSX?

 

[Edge]

What I make of it is Global Cache! EDRAM on RSX?

I believe that's the "Turbo Cache" that allows RSX to render either in it's local memory pool or CELL's local memory pool. It's to help reduce latencies in rendering over the CELL bus.

It's not edram for the frame-buffer, etc.

 

[hugo]

It looks more like the rendition of Sony's Broadband engine(BE)???

That cannot be the RSX.

 

[bobthebub]

That cannot be the RSX.

Could it be a representation of a Single RSX Quad?

 

[leechan25]

Could this be Sony's concept primary addition to the RSX?

 

[leechan25]

Remember PS2 has two vector units. It seems that this has 4 processors units.

 

[leechan25]

I'm guessing here,

What would we call a GPU with multiply cores....

What if each core of cell had it own GPU core to work with?

and we had two SPE for one GPU core?

 

[nAo]

IIRC it's a picture from some patent by Sony or Toshiba
Version..you're my personal hero

 

[leechan25]

nAo,

Could answer my question.

is it even possible that the RSX has more than one core?

 

[nAo]

nAo,

Could answer my question.

is it even possible that the RSX has more than one core?

Oh..I can reply to that, just give me 1 bilion dollars first, so I can pay all the legal expenses

 

[leechan25]

500-600 million transistors
4 MB tilecache
1 TB/s bandwith

What has specs like this...?

 

[leechan25]

nAo, cash or check...

 

[nAo]

nAo, cash or check...

If you have all that money you should play ATI or NVIDIA to develop your own dreams GPU

 

[leechan25]

Version said this in the past:

"4 processor push up the cache latency, and system will be slower than with 3 ppes..."

Maybe he was talking about this in regards to the RSX...?

Independent SPE working with full programmable GPU cores (processor units)

Wow if the RSX really is a multi-core GPU that easy to work with like past Nvidia cards we could see some really cool stuff being done on the PS3!

 

[leechan25]

nAo, you can't throw me off now. It just make sense. If Sony spent all that time make a multi-core CPU why would they not want a GPU the could work these SPE independently or simultaneously on task?

 

[Bobbler]

Just out of curiosity, nAo, DeanoC, or whoever else is currently working on a PS3 title... Do you guys actually know full well what the RSX will be? (like the architecture of it, pipelines, and feature set of it, etc, etc)

Just a yes or no (or if you can't answer it, ignore this) -- I don't want to know about it (because I know you can't answer that), but I'd like to know if you guys know exactly what it is.

Hopefully the question is broad enough that it doesn't break any NDAs to answer it? (who knows though, they'd probably prefer you act like you don't even know that the PS3 is Sony's next console )