| tnsnick12345 said: So, I just sold my Wii bc i realized it just collects dust bc im a harcore gamer and have finished with Zelda and Mario, and all that was left for me was SSB, which i can play at friends houses, bc the online will be horrible. With these exra funds from Ebay I can't resist buying a PS3 that finally has some nice looking games now, and coming soon. I think I'v decided on getting the 40 gb version bc I wont need a ton of storage space (having trouble filling up 40 bg of my Elite's hardrive). So i have been looking at the new chips coming for the Ps3 and have come away from Google completely comfused. So my Q is, do the 40 gb versions of the PS3 have the new 65 nm chips? are they coming soon? do all models have them? are the 45 nm chips coming soon? This is to decide when to buy it bc if the newer smaller chips are coming soon then i will wait till then. And plz no "I think they are 45nm" Only FACTS Plz. Thx. :) |
Its true that the 40GB PS3 SKU's come with the 65nm, but it only has it for the CPU, not the GPU and also it lacks backwards compatibility with PS2 games.
In an interview with Japanese site AV Watch, Sony Computer Entertainment President and CEO Kaz Hirai has given the (hopefully) final word on the new console's innards. According to Hirai's statements, both reports were partially true: the 40GB PS3 indeed has a 65nm version of the Cell processor, but its RSX GPU is still 90nm. Nonetheless, the change is enough to shave power consumption quite considerably. Hirai quotes a 100W drop from maximum power consumption of 380W to 280W. With lower power consumption also comes lower noise levels, which Hirai says have dropped from 36dB to 30dB.
Source: http://techreport.com/discussions.x/13569
