What!?

[Soldier X]

Now that PS3 and X360 specifications are out, what is all of this "teraflops" and 1080p and 1080i. I also see that the PS3 is only be powered by one processor, but they say it will top the X360, but then again didn't they say the X360 had three processors all at 3.2GHz? I just don't get this... can anyone fill me on all of this tech talk, as well as any other usefull information I may need? (Others may ask there questions too.)

Also, what is EDRAM, VRAM, etc? (I know it's a type of memory, but what's the difference?)

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[Doppelgofer]

its something to do with sweat and feet apparantly

 

[gh0st]

Dont bother. Both are completely different architechtures, both will do various things better. It will be up to the developer to exploit each system. Both are strong hardware wise, its up to the games and peripherals (aka online, etc).

 

[Murray_H]

The key is the second word

The polar bear is irrelevant

Or is it......:O

 

[short recoil]

Yeah don't go comparing the tech, just wait for tech demo vids!

 

[xLostx]

I'm just laughing at the polar bear

 

[Reginald]

They just make up words to impress us. Because if they don't their console will be just one huge terraflop.

 

[T.H.C.138]

don't the teraflops have something to do with data transfer rates or something like that?

 

[bryanf445]

all that tech jargon is making my head spin

 

[WhiteZero]

Cell Technology (which is what PS3 uses) has several "processing units" inside of the 1 chip.

Dont worry about the "ammount of processors", just the overall output.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

teraflops.. sounds like a joke or something silly.

 

[BRODIEMAN2k4]

Well ya know, the ps3 has eleven more gigalarps then the Xbox360, but I'm still not sure that the PS3 has as many kiloflabbles. :|

 

[AH_Viper]

LOL, ok ladies a work form the wise

Right, tera is what comes after giga - as in giga byte.

kilo - K 2^10
mega - M 2^20
giga - G 2^30
tera - T 2^40

FLOP is a floating point operation - Basicaly computers work in Binary (ones and zero's) so you can't realy get fractions, but to get fractions you can use the "Floating Point" method. Basicaly its the number of these fraction operation per second. The bigger the better.

If someone knows any better let me know cause that was me trying to think back to first year uni and i'm not totaly sure that right

EDIT:: No wait, it might be negative numbers it deals with.... DAMIT I would so fail my first year exam

 

[Absinthe]

Console unveilings always piss me off to some degree. Not necessarily the unveilings themselves, but the way fans handle it.

"The Xbox 360 has 420 teraflops of processing power!"

"But the PS3 has 200 macrobiggles of rectifying transfer space!"

"So? Xbox 360 has pin-point precision float triangulators that transport information to a turqoise globone in space that shoots electricity out and has the ability to end world hunger. I know. I've seen it."

"But the PS3 has a multi-facer klexiomatic baseprint that that siphers energy to a million polyplexic destructo units, giving it the ability to reticulate massive 4D polynomials inside the gate of God himself."

"You don't even know what that means!"

"STFU!"

 

[NikolaX]

They just make up words to impress us. Because if they don't their console will be just one huge terraflop.

quote it for my sig m8

 

[Septih]

LOL, ok ladies a work form the wise

Right, tera is what comes after giga - as in giga byte.

kilo - K 2^10
mega - M 2^20
giga - G 2^30
tera - T 2^40

FLOP is a floating point operation - Basicaly computers work in Binary (ones and zero's) so you can't realy get fractions, but to get fractions you can use the "Floating Point" method. Basicaly its the number of these fraction operation per second. The bigger the better.

If someone knows any better let me know cause that was me trying to think back to first year uni and i'm not totaly sure that right

EDIT:: No wait, it might be negative numbers it deals with.... DAMIT I would so fail my first year exam

you're right

with floating point its a lot like maths with say .13 x 10 to power 7 or something, and certain segments of bits are assigned to be a mantissa(the .13) and the exponent(the 7, which is converted to 10 to the power 7). Its a slower but more accurate way of doing real numbers. you can have fixed point as well(bits after the decimal point represent 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 and so on) but thats reall inaccurate.

negative numbers is just twos complement, with the most significant bit(the one furthest to the left) being the sign bit, if its 1 then its negative, if 0 then positive.


the rest of you can wake up now (or say that i've gotten it totally wrong and i shouldn't bother sitting my A2 exam)