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

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 20:09:20 05/17/05

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On May 17, 2005 at 21:07:26, Rex wrote:

>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
>>>
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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 :.)
>
>
>I too would purchase one.  The Xbox that is.  Chessmaster is already out with
>XBox 360!!!


Can you Imagine what this future PS3 will achieve using ChessMaster?
This games can give you some indications of how strong it is now with a mere 295
Mhz PS2   :http://chessprogramming.org/cccsearch/ccc.php?art_id=344201

Jorge



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