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Article #23425Re: Playstation 2 has as much FPU power as Merced?
From: Thomas Womack
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 00:00
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Paul DeMone wrote in message <36DDB3AB.378F5C87@igs.net>... >aa158@valleynet.on.ca wrote: >> >> Two current news items at EETimes: >> >> "The Playstation 2's CPU, jointly developed by Toshiba and SCE, is >> an enhanced version of the device described at ISSCC. The device >> has floating-point performance of 6.2 Gflops..." >> http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19990302S0026 I'd not be amazed if it actually achieved that - what they seem to be claiming is one-tick-throughput matrix-vector multiply, which is probably achievable. Essentially it's a 300MHz geometry accelerator. Tom
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