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 >>>> >>>>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!!! > > >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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