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Sony PSP2 GPU will be the PowerVR SGX55x
RSX Reality Synthesizer, the PS3’s GPU
Want to know to what looks like the graphics processor of a Sony PlayStation 3? Hardware Secrets has done the job for us. The PS3 is completely disassembled and here is the GPU:
The heart of the Playstation 3 is made of two processors: the CPU (Cell Broadband Engine or CXD2989), and the GPU (RSX Reality Synthesizer or CXD2982).
RSX Reality Synthesizer has the following specifications:
– 550 MHz, 90nm process and 300+ million transistors
– 24 pixel processors
– 8 vertex processors
– 24 texturing units
– 8 ROPs
The PS3’s GPU is based on old NVIDIA G70 (GeForce 7) architecture…
Real Time Ray Tracing Demo of Rome Reborn
Siggraph 2008 Demo of Rome Reborn model v1.1 running on the IBM QS21 Cell/B.E. Blades using iRT ray tracer.
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