L'11 novembre 2006 fu lanciata in commercio in Giappone l'anziana PS3 Fat, il 18 agosto 2009 venne annunciata la versione Slim e pochi mesi fa, il 19 settembre 2012 la versione Super Slim (o,per gli amici, Ultra Slim).
Nell'ultimo periodo ,però,iniziano a comparire in giro rumors ,non per una nuova revisione della PS3 ma per una nuova console, la PS4/Orbis
Quali sono le ipotetiche caratteristiche di questa nuova console?
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LIVERPOOL SOC:
Custom implementation of AMD Fusion APU Arquitecture (Accelerated Processing Unit)
Provides good performance with low power consumption
Integrated CPU and GPU
Considerably bigger and more powerful than AMD’s other APUs
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CPU:
Orbis contains eight Jaguar cores at 1.6 Ghz, arranged as two “clusters”
Each cluster contains 4 cores and a shared 2MB L2 cache
256-bit SIMD operations, 128-bit SIMD ALU
SSE up to SSE4, as well as Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
One hardware thread per core
Decodes, executes and retires at up to two intructions/cycle
Out of order execution
Per-core dedicated L1-I and L1-D cache (32Kb each)
Two pipes per core yield 12,8 GFlops performance
102.4 GFlops for system
GPU:
GPU is based on AMD’s “R10XX” (Southern Islands) architecture
DirectX 11.1+ feature set
Liverpool is an enhanced version of the architecture
18 Compute Units (CUs)
Hardware balanced at 14 CUs
Shared 512 KB of read/write L2 cache
800 Mhz
1.843 Tflops, 922 GigaOps/s
Dual shader engines
18 texture units
8 Render backends
Memory:
4 GB unified system memory, 176 GB/s
3.5 available to games (estimate)
Storage:
High speed Blu-ray drive
Single layer (25 GB) or dual layer (50 GB) discs
Partial constant angular velocity (PCAV)
Outer half of disc 6x (27 MB/s)
Inner half varies, 3.3x to 6x
Internal mass storage
One SKU at launch: 500 GB HDD
There may also be a Flash drive SKU in the future
Networking:
1 Gb/s Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n WIFI, and Bluetooth
Peripherals:
Evolved Dualshock controller
Dual Camera
Move controller
Extra:
Audio Processor (ACP)
Video encode and decode (VCE/UVD) units
Display ScanOut Engine (DCE)
Zlib Decompression Hardware
Queste dovrebbero essere le caratteristiche delle periferiche esterne :Citazione:
Some people is confused about the GPU, here you have more info about it:
Each CU contains dedicated:
ALU (32 64-bit operations per cycle)
Texture Unit
L1 data cache
Local data share (LDS)
About 14 + 4 balance:
4 additional CUs (410 Gflops) “extra” ALU as resource for compute
Minor boost if used for rendering
Dual Shader Engines:
1.6 billion triangles/s, 1.6 billion vertices/s
18 Texture units:56 billion bilinear texture reads/s
Can utilize full memory bandwith
8 Render backends:
32 color ops/cycle
128 depth ops/cycle
Can utilize full memory bandwith
Voci di corridoio affermano che il lancio avverrà a Dicembre 2013 ed che il prezzo sarà 40,000 yen(circa 300 €) , ma cosa ci dovremmo aspettare realmente? Credete che le caratteristiche saranno queste oppure son solo rumor ?Citazione:
Dual camera:
“Dual Camera” appears to be an evolutioned HD Eyetoy instead of a Kinect device, based on the features offered right now.
It contains a pair of wide-angle cameras. Each camera offers a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels (720p).
Sound is processed by a 4 microphone array working at 48 Khz.
The device can perform some non gaming tasks such as:
- Recognize the user and log in the system
- Video chat
Controller:
Sources close to the hardware have revealed to us that PS4 will ship with a redesigned controller which is the same size as an existing DualShock but features a small touchpad in place of the existing Select, Start and PS buttons. The tech is based on Vita’s rear touchpad, and is similarly responsive in use.
A new Share button on the controller will, when pressed, launch a new feature that will allow screenshots and video to be distributed online. The PS4 hardware will continually record the most recent 15 minutes of onscreen action (with no processing penalty, claims our source), which users will then be able to edit and broadcast via the Internet.
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UPDATE 15/2
Come previsto filtrano regolarmente nuove voci e/o immagini.
Ieri è stata pubblicata la foto del prototipo del nuovo joypad insieme al devkit.
Sembra integrare un touchscreen / touchpad, un microfono più altoparlante e un led luminoso simile a quello del Move (che probabilmente sarà integrato).
Allegato 9110
Ed è anche comparso un ironico edit sulle "funzionalità" ^_^
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UPDATE 16/2
Secondo nuove voci,la nuova PS4 avrà la possibilità di giocare via streaming con giochi salvati nel web.In questo modo,inoltre, si potranno pure avviare i titoli PS3
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