Slimebeast said:
zarx said:
Slimebeast said:
zarx said:
some interesting points mixed with some obviously flame bait ones lol, still it's interesting
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Because videogames journalism is embarrassingly bad.
1. Two quad-core processors boasting PS3-esque power in something the size of a PSP? Given that a PS3 is about 30 times the size of a PSP and still needs a fan you could get a medium-sized helicopter off the ground with (and which makes about the same amount of noise), how on Earth are they going to manage that without the thing melting in your hands after three minutes?
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How can it have two quad-core CPUs?
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it's got a 4 core ARM CPU and the GPU design they are using (same as the iPhone) has 4 "cores or at least that is what the designers call them. http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/consoles/inside-the-sony-ngp-the-cpu-and-gpu-in-detail-924306
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So is it like 25% faster than an iPhone 4 or is it magnitudes more powerful?
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oh I should have been clear the iPhone's GPU is by the same manufacturer but is a generation older (incremental) and only has a single GPU core so theoretically the NGP is 4 iPhone 4's duck taped together. But NGP's performance will be slighlty better than that sugests as SONY have finnaly learnt that easy to use but powerfull APIs are a good idea and have created a bunch of low level API's (think Open GL/Direct X) built to directly acces the hardware in the NGP which according to John Carmack will allow developers to get resaults far beyond what could be acomplished on a smart phone with the same specs through generic APIs.
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