Author: Rex
Date: 18:07:26 05/17/05
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On May 17, 2005 at 17:51:07, Sally Weltrop wrote: >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 >> >>TrackBack Print E-mail TalkBack >>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 :.) I too would purchase one. The Xbox that is. Chessmaster is already out with XBox 360!!!
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