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

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 22:45:37 05/17/05

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On May 17, 2005 at 23:09:20, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>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

It won't be as big of an improvement unless a Deep Program is used.

Don't misunderstand, CM will be very very strong on a single core, but not as
strong as an SMP program. Maybe SMK or another SMP author could and probably
should take advantage of this oppertunity.

Terry



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