Megadrive1988
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Deadmeat, I was wondering the same thing myself.
I expect Sony to show something on *some* version of Cell, this month, an perhaps in doing so, Sony will be, in a way, answering the challenge of Xbox Next.
When is Kutaragi's CELL demo scheduled???
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Deadmeat, I was wondering the same thing myself.
I expect Sony to show something on *some* version of Cell, this month, an perhaps in doing so, Sony will be, in a way, answering the challenge of Xbox Next.
Megadrive1988
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Deadmeat, I was wondering the same thing myself.
I expect Sony to show something on *some* version of Cell, this month, an perhaps in doing so, Sony will be, in a way, answering the challenge of Xbox Next.
Panajev2001a
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Because of course an event which has not yet happened already is prooving you right ?
Well, you do have a point... being no CELL chip being demonstrated at this moment you can say it is doing 0 FLOPS.
Deadmeat said:
Because of course an event which has not yet happened already is prooving you right ?
Well, you do have a point... being no CELL chip being demonstrated at this moment you can say it is doing 0 FLOPS.
Is this thread serving any purpose?
zidane1strife
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I've never heard of such a promise, if someone has a link/quote, I'd like to see it... from what I've seen it seems to be an inference based on the patent, a patent that carries information for all to see... including their rivals....
The final h/w won't necessarily equate that single Tflop perf you speak of... it might not be achieved.... or it might be exceeded.... .... ....
Panajev2001a
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Since PlayStation 3 is quite probably ( 99% of the sources will tell you this ) slated to come out in 2006 I can believe how you could be 100% sure of your claims.
You could have said: if Hitler's Germany gets defeated I win, if he wins the war you win.
Fun with false statements.
Deadmeat said:
Since PlayStation 3 is quite probably ( 99% of the sources will tell you this ) slated to come out in 2006 I can believe how you could be 100% sure of your claims.
You could have said: if Hitler's Germany gets defeated I win, if he wins the war you win.
Fun with false statements.
Nitpicking.
Its a G5. Power5 hasn't even been rolled out yet - and it will only be available on the most expensive range of high-end servers. Besides placing a server CPU in a consumer gaming box is a waste of money. Even G5 only inherits Power4's execution core(over-simplified statement). The really expensive stuff including cache design, cpu-interconnect(whatever it's called), etc. are left out.
DMGA said:
Reality Check:
R300/R350 (Radeon 9800 XT, etc...):
4 vertex shaders * 4 FPUs each = 16 FLOP/clk
8 texture address units * 4 FPUs each = 32 FLOP/clk
16 fragment shaders * 4 FPUs each = 64 FLOP/clk
(16 + 32 + 64) * 432 Mhz = 47.25 GFLOPS. I'm also assuming that 1 FMAD = 1 FLOP, usually it's counted as two but I'll be generous this once. If the best speedup ATI can accomplish in three years (Sep 2003 -> ~Nov 2006) is 35.5 percent then I'll die. Of shock.
Frankly I'm stunned that MeatdeadQ* hasn't already recieved his personal invitation from Kutaragi-san. Wouldn't this be high up on Ken's list of things to do?
1) Rake in profits from almost 10 years of industry leading console sales.
2) Show next-generation CPU to some guy on the internet.
3) Prepare PS3 for worldwide launch.
Frankly rushing anything out in reaction to their competitors is exactly what Sony are unlikely to do - they've no doubt got their plan for release all worked out, and I expect they'll stick to it regardless of what Microsoft or Nintendo get up to, safe in the knowledge that the majority of the buying public will wait for them (or buy a second console). PlayStation is one of the most successful brands (in any category) of all time, and Sony won't have their schedule dictated to them.
Whatever technical specs they think are required to generate enough hype, I'm sure they'll be able to massage the numbers appropriately - as will the competition, as everyone has done in every generation...
Playing top-trumps with imaginary performance figures seems like a bit of a waste of time to me.
*this was rumoured to be the official name used during Deadmeat's development. Should anyone actually register under the name MeatdeadQ, they'll be refered to as "MeatdeadQ" - note the quotation marks to ease any confusion between the two.
1) Rake in profits from almost 10 years of industry leading console sales.
2) Show next-generation CPU to some guy on the internet.
3) Prepare PS3 for worldwide launch.
Frankly rushing anything out in reaction to their competitors is exactly what Sony are unlikely to do - they've no doubt got their plan for release all worked out, and I expect they'll stick to it regardless of what Microsoft or Nintendo get up to, safe in the knowledge that the majority of the buying public will wait for them (or buy a second console). PlayStation is one of the most successful brands (in any category) of all time, and Sony won't have their schedule dictated to them.
Whatever technical specs they think are required to generate enough hype, I'm sure they'll be able to massage the numbers appropriately - as will the competition, as everyone has done in every generation...
Playing top-trumps with imaginary performance figures seems like a bit of a waste of time to me.
*this was rumoured to be the official name used during Deadmeat's development. Should anyone actually register under the name MeatdeadQ, they'll be refered to as "MeatdeadQ" - note the quotation marks to ease any confusion between the two.
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