"PS3 1000 times more powerful than PS2"

Well, 150 GHz would be insane... imagine, 150 billion clocks a second with what... 128 bit internal buses? Damn, you do the math and see how much of information will be going through the chip. Hell, I don\'t think there\'s any medium by then that could possibly keep up with the sheer amount of data needed to fully maximize the bus. It\'s already quite an achievement what Sony did with the 2560 bit GS <> VRAM bus @ 150 MHz (48 GB/s). 128 bits @ 150 GHz would be something like 2.4 TB/s. That\'s TERA-BYTES we\'re speaking here... :eek:

Originally posted by Proud To Be
Whithin the gaming world, I cant see any more consoles getting THAT much better graphics wise. Although speed wise.. as the GHz above note, will greatly approve and say bye-bye to loading times and freezes, and all that other crap PS has gone through. The sky\'s the limit.

Well, what about: Higher resolution textures, real-time shadows from EVERY object (imagine GTA with shadows being cast from every car, every pedestrian, every building, and the shadows would be determined by the sun\'s position in the sky!!!), higher polygon models to the extent where you can\'t see where one poly ends and another begins. Yeah, you\'re right, they won\'t get that much better.

[Titan]

Originally posted by Kurt Angle
1000 times faster, that would be very special if they could achieve that. Imagine playing the next gen GTA on that machine!

It would be like your actually there :eek:

Imangine shooting someone in there head and seeing realistic looking brain flying out the other side. :O

Originally posted by Echo


Well, what about: Higher resolution textures, real-time shadows from EVERY object (imagine GTA with shadows being cast from every car, every pedestrian, every building, and the shadows would be determined by the sun\'s position in the sky!!!), higher polygon models to the extent where you can\'t see where one poly ends and another begins. Yeah, you\'re right, they won\'t get that much better.

Smart ass.

"There\'s also word this month - from Sony itself - that PS3 might not just be limited to the console domain. A spokesman for Sony Computer Entertainment went on record saying that PS3 could take the form of an operating system that could run on a variety of devices, allowing them to play PS3 games.

So, instead of a PlayStation with DVD capabilities, you might have a DVD player with PlayStation capabilities. Or a toaster that can play Final Fantasy? Hmm...

If it isn\'t a console like the PS2, Sony will fail a ****ing toaster WTF, and downloading games is ****ing stupid.

It\'s a buncha hype again.  PS2 was hyped up even MORE and just a year later a console was released that was more powerful than Sony\'s.  All I hope for PS3 is at least 64mb of VRAM and GTA X will be a smooth 60 fps with great looking textures.

Originally posted by THX
......All I hope for PS3 is at least 64mb of VRAM and GTA X will be a smooth 60 fps with great looking textures.

64MB of VRAM? I thought PS2 had like 32MB.... and all you want is twice that much? I think that might be a bit too little.

[Paul2]

I think ps3 won\'t be 150 ghz.  Seems like about 2 ghz to 3Ghz to me...it\'s likely to be around 3 Ghz to me.
3 Ghz is a lot.  That\'s 10x faster than ps2 300 mhz.  Not even Intel Pentium 4 right now is at 3 Ghz yet.
Something tells me ps3 is capable of pushing 20 billion polygons per second without effects and 4-5 billions with effects per second.  That will be around 83 million polygons per frame @ 60fps.  83 millions polygons per frame is much higher than what ps2 can do per second which is 66 mil pps.  I am just guessing and estimating.  So don\'t take this too serously.

Originally posted by THX
It\'s a buncha hype again.  PS2 was hyped up even MORE and just a year later a console was released that was more powerful than Sony\'s.  All I hope for PS3 is at least 64mb of VRAM and GTA X will be a smooth 60 fps with great looking textures.

64 MB of VRAM is pretty useless unless you want resolutions as high as 6400x 4800 pixels (probably higher than that), which I doubt any TV will support by then... it\'s not a PC.

[Paul2]

Originally posted by Echo


64MB of VRAM? I thought PS2 had like 32MB.... and all you want is twice that much? I think that might be a bit too little.

Echo, you are confuse with Main Ram and VRAM.  PS2 have 32 MB of Main RAM, 4 MB of VRAM, and 2 MB of sound RAM.
64 MB of VRAM is 16x the amount of 4 MB of VRAM.
PS3 might have as many as 512 Main RAM, it\'s just a guess.  maybe 128 MB of VRAM and 16 MB of sound RAM....or do it the way XBOX did it, some sort of unified RAM.

Paul2, you left out 2 MB for the IOP. In total, PS2 has 40 MB of RAM.

what good would be 128 MB of VRAM anyway? The way PS3 is built (similar to PS2) it won\'t need that much, especially if its general purpose will be for the framebuffer...

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"HI. I\'m a Sony Rep and I\'m hyping something that won\'t be specs!"

Originally posted by Adan

At the moment, the matter transistors are made of is the Silicon. The technology SiGe, leaves of the current base of production, but adding a new component, the Germanium (Ge) to improve the yield and speed of commutation of the digital circuits that form the current microprocessors.  
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they could be using Electrodeposition to create a Nanomaterials from Germanium (Ge). In theroy it would be possible to Coat the Silion Structure of the transistors with a thin layer (nano Scale) of Germanium.

reason for selecting Germanium other than its boosting properties, well it can be easyly deposited opon another metal trough either Electroplating or Electrodeposition methods.

hence the creation of the Si Ge alloy.

why do i know this ?

because i am doing a PhD on it that\'s Why

click on the attachment for an more info.

the Graph is a IE graph showing the voltahe vs the I Adm^2

at point 1
We have the formation of Ge onto the Silicon Substrate/ Cathode

were

(Ge+2 ions) + (e-2 electrons) = Ge metal


at point 2
We have the formation of Ge onto the Ge metal Substrate/ cathode.

at point 3

we have the potential start of hydrogen evolution around the cathode and as a result we have a localised pH cange around the cathode.

:o ooseven that sounds to "future".