Tuesday, March 17th 2020
Sony's Mark Cerny to Detail PS5 Architecture March 18th
Sony has announced via Twitter that their lead system architect Mark Cerny will "provide a deep dive into PS5's system architecture, and how it will shape the future of games" tomorrow. This is likely the start of Sony's marketing campaign for the release of the PS5 which is due out Holidays 2020.
The Japanese company has remained puzzlingly tight-lipped regarding their next-gen games console, which is a far cry from Microsoft's position, who have been releasing details and teasing their next-gen Xbox Series X system for a while now. It remains to be seen how Sony's system will differ from Microsoft's Xbox Series X, since most specs are rumored to be close on both consoles. The underlying Zen 2 architecture for the CPUs is confirmed in both consoles, and so should the fabrication process and RDNA2-based graphics with dedicated ray tracing hardware. It remains to be seen how the companies will aim to differentiate their offerings.
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Sony @ Twitter
The Japanese company has remained puzzlingly tight-lipped regarding their next-gen games console, which is a far cry from Microsoft's position, who have been releasing details and teasing their next-gen Xbox Series X system for a while now. It remains to be seen how Sony's system will differ from Microsoft's Xbox Series X, since most specs are rumored to be close on both consoles. The underlying Zen 2 architecture for the CPUs is confirmed in both consoles, and so should the fabrication process and RDNA2-based graphics with dedicated ray tracing hardware. It remains to be seen how the companies will aim to differentiate their offerings.
27 Comments on Sony's Mark Cerny to Detail PS5 Architecture March 18th
Heaven knows why you quoted me.
Hopefully there are features, and uses unbeknownst to us yet.
www.gtplanet.net/playstation-3-cell-more-powerful-modern-chips/I miss it so much :(
But if you read the link, you would see the following:www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/is-playstation-3s-cell-processor-still-more-powerful-than-modern-desktop-chips.391251/
It was cool, once. Now it'd be a joke.
For example,
The article makes zero sense, but an educated reader can get that from the title alone. Of course its not faster and it never was. Its a patchwork PowerPC. For its time it was certainly unique in the consumer world, yes. Too bad it was effectively a design failure because economically the PS3 wasn't that viable for Sony, and they quickly axed the original version and some of its features.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_technical_specifications
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core 62.56 GFLOPS in ranker.sisoftware.co.uk/show_device.php?q=c9a598d994d0f0a2dba1c4aa8abd9dae99a999c1e1d9f4b7d8aacfe98eb39eaf89fbc6f6d0b984b593fbc6f3d5ad90a187e287ba8aacdfe2da
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core (SGEMM) GFLOPS performance 546 GFLOPS gadgetversus.com/processor/amd-ryzen-9-3900x-vs-amd-ryzen-7-3700x/
A beefed Cell on N7 would run circles over the Ryzen 7 3700X.
That with a Navi 23 would be a much better system overall.
Theoretical
Did you?
If you want to keep spouting BS, TPU's probably not your favorite place to be. Try Reddit
Cell might've been cool from an architecture standpoint but as a console cpu it was a pretty big failure.
PS5 Deep-Dive Reveal
Aaand that was pretty underwhelming. I was hoping to see the actual console, some demos. Kinda felt like they're a little behind schedule. All in all, it seems like they're trying to innovate more than MS, which just seems like better specs all around and call it a day. Innovation in the console space doesn't work too well though, traditionally.
GPU is 36 CUs running at 2.23Ghz (typically, variable frequency) which is about 10.28 TFLOPs.
There's also the 16 GB of GDDR6 ram @ 448GB/s and a custom 825GB SSD.
That's the gist of it.
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/the-playstation-supercomputer/