Quote:Original post by samuraicrow

Quote:Original post by Spoonbender
The Cell basically one crippled core, and 7 useless ones.
The 360 is 3 crippled ones. IF the Revolution turns out to have one conventional core, I'm putting my bets on that. At least for the first couple of years.

The key to the Cell processor is that the SPEs will be able to do long sustained DMA bursts from interleaved RAMBus memory. That will outrun the conventional relatively short speculative bursts of today's cache controllers.

I agree with Spoonbender here. A single core is going to make it much easier to get games onto the thing quickly. Coding for the Ps3 & 360 is not exactly nice..... and wont be for a while until the coding tools improve an awful lot (the 360 is somewhat ahead in that respect).

Quote:Where I think the Revolution will excell is that it will likely use a physics processor. They may not follow Aegia's patent and may therefore get around the pricetag of that PPU and use a custom Nintendo PPU instead, for example.

Actually i hope they follow aegia's patent. They'd have to provide somehing on a par with the Novodex SDK to make that of any real use - they'd also have the additional cost of R&D on the chip, R&D on the software, etc etc. It'd probably be cheaper to actually do a deal with Aegia.... (as well as pleasing people developing for the console....)

i'm always one for using currently available libs rather than re-inventing the wheel..... Especially libs that people already know how to use....

The 512Mb of main ram for the revolution may actually be correct, but only for the devkits - you normally need twice the ram when running debug code....