Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the stuff-to-poke-at dept.
Yousef writes "GameSpy has an interesting article about a presentation given by Sony's head of R&D for Entertainment. It appears that there are some very interesting things in store for the PS3, plus a complete Red Hat Linux installation for the PS2 and many other toys too. An interesting read."
Re:PS2 and PS3 processors
by
silkySlim
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· Score: 1, Troll
Compared to PC hardware, the PS2 is SLOOOOOOW. It's core CPU is a 294 mHz MIPS.
The real speed comes in with the specialized vector units (VU0 & VU1) that are specifically built to scream through large sets of 4 component floating point vectors (used as 3d coordinates in games) and perform a limited number of operations on them.
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Compared to PC hardware, the PS2 is SLOOOOOOW. It's core CPU is a 294 mHz MIPS. The real speed comes in with the specialized vector units (VU0 & VU1) that are specifically built to scream through large sets of 4 component floating point vectors (used as 3d coordinates in games) and perform a limited number of operations on them.