Alby_da_Wolf said:
Solid_Snake4RD said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:
Solid_Snake4RD said:
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Alby_da_Wolf said:
A rough calculation is easy: releasing next year they could sell a console twice as powerful as the current one for $300 with around the same margin they have now. But if they want to offer 1440p (and that not be just a 1080p upscaled), they need a console twice as powerful just for this, then they need to furtherly double it if they want to offer 3D up to max res. So they need to release consoles 4 times as powerful as the current ones,
1) PS3 can do full 1080p 3D
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About graphics, 1GB RAM is currently already common also on cheap cards, so no need to go below it.
2) the graphic RAM doesn't need to be there,they can do a unified RAM
and SONY could even remove the GRaphic and do 2 CELL as it does a pretty good job
also what is the speed of the upcoming SSD's,can that be used for RAM?
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1) With the same polygon count as 2D? (meaning having to calculate twice as much polygons, not just pixels).
PS3 can do 2160p 2D so they can do 1080p 3D
2) Cheaper but slower, and not necessary now that RAM is so cheap.
WHICH line was this for (*)
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(*) Answer #2 was for the bolded part.
but what is cheaper,slower and not necessary? (**)
About part #1 I didn't know, good, this means that if absolutely needed Sony could launch an early PS4 roughly 2 times as powerful as PS3 without losing money, very good.
they will still lose a bit as they do always as they try to bring the new tech in.but it will be recouped in the first year itself
About doing graphics with a second Cell, I guess it can be done, but a specialized GPU, good only for its work, could do the same work for less money.
yes but it has the limitatiosn,if you have CELL alone then you use it for anything and optimize itself not to deal with two things and getting them to work with each other (***)
Maybe dropping NVidia and chosing ATI instead.
that really doesn't matter as the deals that happen are wholesale kind so they would get any more cheap with ATI
Cell SPEs will help graphics and physics more and more with time anyway, as dev tools evolve, and programmers' experience increase.
yes and with 2 CELL their is unlimited power.you can just go on and on and don't have to worry about the limitations of the other parts
About SSD, they can provide a swap file enormously faster than electromechanical magnetic drives, but they are too many steps behind dynamic RAM, particularly for writing. Life of the drive is another issue, even if less than in the past, writes still shorten flash memories' life, using them for SSD writes can be managed quite well to reduce the problem, using them instead of RAM the problem would be very serious, as writes to RAM are in numbers several orders of magnitude larger than writes to disk.
i thought so it would be the problem
i was just thinking if it could do it then the SSD drive space could be used and so ddevelopes would have unlimited power as SSD's would be provided with each console (****)
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