| JerCotter7 said: He seems full of crap. First he has no idea what Sony did with the audio chip. It may be a piece of crap or it could be better than the bones chip. He also talks about what he thinks the extra processors might do. When they may do nothing worth mentioning beyond small tasks. The ESRAM being in banks of 8mb means nothing. The developers will only see the final 32mb. Same as the DDR3 ram. So no it is not being used in a unique way. PC games wont make use of it for years unless the CPU becomes the bottlekneck. PC's already have GDDR5. His post just seems like a lot of what ifs with some bullshit thrown in. |
Actually, 32MB divided up into 4 - 8MB blocks means you can have two processes reading and two writing to the memory at once. If they're smart, no, they won't think of it as a single 32MB block. More importantly, I think the API will make using it approrpiately easy.
A patent was awarded yesterday on how Microsoft is doing coherent memory, the patent dealt with the API or at least the images I looked at did, and it's clear that they are working to ensure developers have to do as little work as possible to take advantage of hardware features.
Sony didn't do anything with an audio chip, they don't have one. They have a video encoder and that is for the DVR function.
Taking small tasks away from the CPU and GPU frees up processing cycles for the CPU and GPU. The very reason you use separate processors.
And thank you for posting such intelligent remarks as "He seems full of crap." Your assutute, educated observations not with standing, he actually makes some reasonable, rational points.
