PlayStation 3 CELL Powered? 1 Trillion FLOPS per second!

Got this info at CoreMagazine.com.  1 Trillion FLOPS per second? :eek:  *Drinks  orange soda*


http://www.coremagazine.com/news/5740.php3

01.30 7pm EST

 

"Sony\'s chief technical officer Shinichi Okamoto recently went on record with Famitsu regarding possible plans for the PlayStation 3. Specifically, Okamoto-san hinted that Sony\'s next game console may include processor technology codenamed \'CELL.\' Currently in the planning stages, the processor will be codeveloped by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM. Tentatively scheduled for completion by 2005, the processor will be capable of 1 Trillion FLOPS (floating-point operations per second). By comparison, the PlayStation 2 is capable of 6.2 Billion FLOPS. Variants of the \'CELL\' technology are expected to revolutionize content delivery and networking systems in the PC market as well."

The Xbox also does 1 Trillion per second.  

 

""The superior graphics features are possible because Xbox has at least three times the graphics performance of the newest generation of game consoles—thanks to the custom designed NVIDIA Xbox GPU, capable of processing more than 1 trillion operations per second."

This is off of Nvidia.com here the link.
 http://nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=xbox

[Bobs_Hardware]

i wish I could do 1 trillion flops per second

and no where in that second quote does it state that the XBox can do 1 Trillian FLOPS per second..

also on that site:
The Xbox has 80 Gigaflops of computing power.  That\'s equivalent to the power found in a Cray C94 supercomputer.

booyah, what the **** were you talking about?

Please, let\'s not get into a specualtive specs argument.

This is all crap as far as I\'m concerned.

[GmanJoe]

"FLOP" is not the kind of word you want to brag about. How many average people know what "FLOP" means?

Originally posted by GmanJoe
"FLOP" is not the kind of word you want to brag about. How many average people know what "FLOP" means?

I don\'t.

Flop

Floating point operations

floating-point

 A number representation consisting of a mantissa, M, an exponent, E, and an (assumed) radix (or "base") . The number represented is M*R^E where R is the radix - usually ten but sometimes 2.

Many different representations are used for the mantissa and exponent themselves. The IEEE specify a standard representation which is used by many hardware floating-point systems.


Basically a number that is either a fraction or a decimal based integer that is not a whole number

33.34567654 is a floating point number

Thx double D, glad you cleared that up before I had to do it. :rolleyes:

Anyways, as far as I\'m concearned this is good news. Anything bringing revolutionary gaming to my house, I must applaud.

And by 2005 which isn\'t that far off BTW, I\'ll be able to afford SONY\'s new beast.

The processor is scheduled to be completed by 2005, not the console.

Mmmmmhmmmmmmm, and once you have a processor a console isn\'t too far behind. I often wonder sometimes why people even say things like that.

and once you have a processor a console isn\'t too far behind. I often wonder sometimes why people even say things like that

First off, 2005 is a projected date, it\'s not soild, anything could happen. Also if the chip does come out 2005 it will take at least a year before the console is released.  


    Anyhow I really look forward to SONY\'s new console, I have a feeling it\'s going to kick major ass, and not turn out to be a dissapointment like PS2. I\'m sure Sony\'s has learned there lesson from the PS2. Hopefully Sony releases there console in JAPAN/North America 1 month apart. Don\'t you guy just hate it when something new like this comes out and you can\'t buy it for many months to come, when you know it\'s already out in the consumer market(japan\'s market)

Go Sony Go!.......same goes for MS, unfortunatly I can\'t say the same for Nintendo, I could care less what they have in store.

[Bobs_Hardware]

Originally posted by NVIDIA256
First off, 2005 is a projected date, it\'s not soild, anything could happen. Also if the chip does come out 2005 it will take at least a year before the console is released.

it might even be earlier  

   

Originally posted by NVIDIA256
Anyhow I really look forward to SONY\'s new console, I have a feeling it\'s going to kick major ass, and not turn out to be a dissapointment like PS2. I\'m sure Sony\'s has learned there lesson from the PS2. Hopefully Sony releases there console in JAPAN/North America 1 month apart. Don\'t you guy just hate it when something new like this comes out and you can\'t buy it for many months to come, when you know it\'s already out in the consumer market(japan\'s market)

yah  *still waiting for XBox and GameCube*..well...not me personally, but the country as a whole, we are biting our nails and feeling our testicular regions in anticipation..

I said it Dajo because it\'s significant.  

The PS3 won\'t be out for at least 2006--there is marketing, dev kits to be shipped, games to be made, console to be constructed, etc.  Sure some of this will go on as the processor is being built, but there is no way the processor can be finalized and the console released in the same year.  Testing alone will take that long.

Before you try to be a smart ass stop and think--logic wouldn\'t hurt either.

[GmanJoe]

It\'s 2002 now. Hmm....2006 is about right. That\'s only 4 years away.

I agree with the guy that posted the third comment this is all crap to me as well.

And you got to be kidding yourselves if you believe that an MS system won\'t be out around the same time.