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Subject: Re: PS3 CPU will be around 3 GHz Are you taking note Christophe!

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 07:54:42 02/13/03

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On February 13, 2003 at 10:36:00, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On February 13, 2003 at 01:13:48, Joshua Haglund wrote:
>
>>On February 12, 2003 at 16:11:06, david wight wrote:
>>
>>>how many more rating points should i add when playing the chessmaster 2 on the
>>>ps2?please any comments would be great.best regards to you.thanks
>>
>>my estimate is 2530.
>>
>>:)
>>Joshua
>>toneewa@yahoo.com
>
>
>First, let's look at the numbers:
>
>    Now if you estimate that CM 9000 is 40 Rating points more than CM 8000 on a
>K6 450 MHz, then CM9000 would be 2556 and if you drop 26 points for the
>difference on the Speed of the CPU, you came as close as as lazer bomb from
>hitting a target. Great estimate Joshua.
>
26 Chessmaster 8000  128MB K6-2 450 MHz     2516   44   -45   251   45%  2549
27  Gandalf 4.32h  128MB K6-2 450 MHz       2511   41   -41   286   52%  2496
28  Goliath Light  128MB K6-2 450 MHz       2502   27   -27   668   44%  2545
29  Nimzo 99  128MB K6-2 450 MHz            2490   24   -24   867   48%  2504
30

>
>CPU:
>XBox: 733 MHz
>PS2: 294.912 MHz
>
>Graphics Processor:
>XBox: 233 MHz custom-designed chip, developed by Microsoft and nVidia
>PS2: 147.456MHz chip
>
>Total Memory:
>XBox: 64MB
>PS2: 32MB
>
>Memory Bandwidth:
>XBox: 6.4GB/sec
>PS2: 3.2 GB/sec
>
>Built in Hard Disk:
>XBox: Yes
>PS2: No
>
>Audio Channels:
>XBox: 256
>PS2: 48

PS: Now take a look at the future of PS3

Main Processor: code-named “Cell” produced by IBM on 0.10-micron SOI process.
Clock Speed: 3 GHz
Floating-Point Performance: 196 GFLOPS
Operations per Second: 2 Trillion
3D Geometric Transformations: 2 Billion Polygons per Second
New processor design specifically for broadband communication generation.

System Memory: 512MB
System Memory Bandwidth: 24 GB/sec

Secondary Processor: Emotion Engine on 0.13-micron process (backward compatible
with PS2)
Clock Speed: 300 MHz or 375 MHz (selectable)

GS3 (Graphics Synthesizer 3)
Clock Speed: 750 MHz
Embedded DRAM: 32MB
Screen Resolution: variable from 320x224 to 1920x1080
Fillrate: 24 Billion Pixels per Second

Sound: SPU3 + CPU
Number of Voices: 256 ADPCM channels + software

DVD-ROM
Built-in Broadband Ethernet Port
120GB Hard Disk Drive

Japanese Release Date: Q4 2004
US Release Date: Q3 2005

Pichard





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