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Subject: Re: Sony Playstation, has Twice the Compute Power of the XBOX 360

Author: Sally Weltrop

Date: 14:51:07 05/17/05

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On May 17, 2005 at 16:26:43, Terry McCracken wrote:

>PlayStation 3 stats spotlighted
>Published: May 16, 2005, 6:16 PM PDT
>By CNET News.com Staff
>
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>Wireless controllers, connection to the PSP and a powerful new graphics
>processor technology: Take a look at the PlayStation 3's performance
>specifications as provided by Sony.
>
>CPU: Cell Processor
>• PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
>• 1 VMX vector unit per core
>• 512KB L2 cache
>• 7 x SPE @3.2GHz
>• 7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
>• 7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
>• 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
>• total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

XBox specs:

Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
Two hardware threads per core; six hardware threads total
VMX-128 vector unit per core; three total
128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
1 MB L2 cache


that's not twice as fast

Theor both beautiful machines though. Who ever writes a strong chess program and
or ports say like Deep Shredder 9 to this platform is going to make some "coins"
because I would be the first to buy XBox OR Playstation and then buy the chess
program to boot ... O, and it has to hook up to ICC :.)



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