The PS3 actually could be worth $600 with a 6 ghz chip in it. Maybe $ony already started on the PS4 after screwing up the PS3 so bad.

...just like other processors, but that doesn't mean it's heading to the PS3.



The PS3 is a console, therefore the processor performance specs will remain unchanged. There's much that can be (and will be) done to reduce cost, reduce heat and increase reliability over the years, but it will still always be a 3.2GHz Cell processor with 7 active SPEs for the PS3.



If Sony choose the unusual step of producing a PS3 model with a higher spec Cell processor and perhaps more memory in future, this will only be used for the purposes of the PS3 acting as a computer, and as a games console, the Cell processor speed will drop back down to 3.2GHz with 512Mb of total memory available for games.

at least for games that is.

CELL=CRAP

All the games have slowdown and washed out colors and poor framerate compared to the X360 thats why i have sold mine and now a proud owner of the Wii and X360. The cell is not a gaming processor its more for multimedia like blueray movies

My friend bought a 360 and 3 months later he got the lights of doom and had to send it in to get it fixed. The wii is just gay, unless your five or retarded, then you may like it. But the PS3 overpowers them both by a **** load.

Cell processor fabrication yield is very low currently, somewhere around 20%. Terrible.

I'd think IBM would drop to 65nm technology to increase yield, add full IEEE floating point to the SPEs, because they've spent over 400 million already they are trying to sell it to the scientific community however it doesn't sell because the cell lacks full IEEE FP. Trash IBM, trash.



"An SPE can operate on 16 8-bit integers, 8 16-bit integers, 4 32-bit integers, or 4 single precision floating-point numbers in a single clock cycle."

Not very parallel only 4 SPFP ops per cc. Why not 128 SIMD processors all capable of doing one DPFP op per cc?



"For double-precision, as used in personal computers, Cell performance drops by an order of magnitude"

Not very powerful. I don't know what IBM is thinking trying to sell it outside of sony's ps3.



When AMD comes out with a real SIMD co-processor with somewhere around 256+ processors each capable of doing one double precision FP op per clock cycle, the cell will seem like a bad idea.



Also, why RAMBUS? PCI-express... come on IBM.



Something cool:

"Recent tests by IBM show that the SPEs can reach 98% of their theoretical peak performance using optimized parallel Matrix Multiplication."



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)#Synergistic_P rocessing_Eleme nts_.28SPE.29

Yeh that happened to about 4 of my mates when they got theirs. And then my other mate tried installin that BC update and it messed up his xbox 360 and now it thinks that its an xbox original sometimes and refuses to play 360 games.

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the PS3 is fine. Shut up and get some of your name

The usual "I have a friend who..." BS. Got anymore lies to tell guys?

Yeah 10 of my "mates" had their PS3 controller catch fire. I read it has the same type of battery as the sony laptops. Shutup fanboys

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I'm not a fanboy of any system because I own them all, but when 360 came out, everybody said the system was crap. I bought one when it was released and played Call of Duty for a year. Xbox is just now making games showing the systems true potential. To me Resistance is like playing Call of duty 2, so in a year or less we will see Sony's power.

"I dont care what you say the ps3 is more powerful then the xbox and wii. Simply compare technical specs."



Yes, the PS3 is more powerful than the 360, but it is only slightly more powerful. Don't look at the specs and think it says everything, because it doesn't. Listen to the developers who understand the specs. Especally, listen to the developers working on both consoles creating games. They say the PS3 is slightly more powerful, FAR less than the specs suggest.

ha ha haa haaaa you guys make me laugh. but seriouly its just a game and it time it iwll past like all the others and you'll forget all about it.

Deus7, the PS3 doesn't cost anywhere near $1600 to produce, the real figure is about half of that.

I've heard issue's with how efficient the CELL BDE is. Like issues with being able to access ram once in every 8 cycles (correct me if im wrong). Now i've also heard that the ibm sever class cells dont have this issue (however they don't use custom low latency ram either). So, unless sony is going to fix this issue, why bother making the processer faster unless they plan on revising it so these issue's still don't exist. I'd buy another ps3 if they planned on fixing this issue if they do indeed plan on releaseing a 6ghz revision (highly doubtfull I might add) because it would equate to being well more than twice as powerfull. Also ppc64 architecture is pretty obscure and trying to get linux running with all the goodies is kind of difficult. Too bad running with x86 architecture is a bad idea in the aspect of ease of piracy (xbox), because alot of good comes out of it (my xbox with xbmc runs better than my linuxed ps3 w/ vlc) alright well im rambling, so i'm done.

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