PS4 graphics to be PowerVR Series 6 ?

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The choice? The
PowerVR Series 6 by Imagination Technologies that utilizes a
technology known as "TBDR," which is "3-5 times better than a
competitive level nVidia/ATI Graphics card." Evidently, Sega used TBDR
to help power the old Sega Dreamcast and if you remember, that console
was definitely ahead of its time in the visual department.

Yes, at a time when the 3Dfx Voodoo2 was a top-of-the line 3D graphics
card for PCs. However, it is not 1998 any more, and while AMD and Nvidia
invested lots of ressources into advances in the performance and
capabilities of their GPUs, the PowerVR today is merely a low-power GPU
for handheld devices as their "grownup" versions never left the
prototype stage.

Sony would be mad if they choosed PowerVR for the PS4.

But perhaps
the most interesting part about all of this is that Sony will retain
the Cell processor currently in all PS3s; this new piece of advanced
technology from Imagination will work with the Cell.

The PS4 is very unlikely to be Cell based as IBM as stopped all
development for this architecture. Cell is dead.

Benjamin

Benjamin Gawert wrote:
But perhaps
the most interesting part about all of this is that Sony will retain
the Cell processor currently in all PS3s; this new piece of advanced
technology from Imagination will work with the Cell.

The PS4 is very unlikely to be Cell based as IBM as stopped all
development for this architecture. Cell is dead.


Yup, Cell is definitely not going to go any further, however, the
current Cell chip might still be sufficiently powerful for the next
generation of PS console. Most of the computing is coming out of the GPU
nowadays anyways.

IBM Cans Next-Generation Cell Processor, Plans to Change Cell Concept -
X-bit labs
"Current PowerXCell 8i chip aimed at servers and supercomputers features
radically improved double-precision floating-point performance (compared
to typical Cell processor found inside Sony PlayStation 3) on the SPEs
from a peak of about 12.8Glops to 102.4Gflops total for eight SPEs.
Potentially, the PowerXCell 8iv could achieve about 500Gflops
double-precision floating-point performance. However, it might make
little sense for IBM to release such a chip since, for example, modern
graphics processing units (GPUs) are already achieving such speed levels
at lower cost: IBM has said numerous times that Cell chip had
insufficient yield."
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...l_Concept.html

Yousuf Khan

Benjamin Gawert writes:
Sony would be mad if they choosed PowerVR for the PS4.

Sony hasn't exactly shown a whole lot of good judgement in designing
their past systems either...

-Miles

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