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PSP 2 is coming; 2010 ! PS4 for 2011 then?
Topic Started: Oct 17 2009, 08:19 AM (260 Views)
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Sony begun work on PSP2 back in 2008 and unofficially announced the selection of graphics hardware: on November 24th, 2008 Imagination Technologies ran a press release stating that "Imagination Technologies Group plc has signed a license agreement with a new partner, a major international consumer electronics company, for a high-performance forthcoming member of Imagination's POWERVR SGX graphics processor family."
The client, "major international Consumer Electronics Company" was no other than Sony Corporation and the chip at hand are known as PowerVR SGX543.

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For instance, a quad-core version SGX543MP4 at only 200 MHz frequency delivers 133 million polygons per second and offers fill-rate of four billion pixels per second [4GPixel/s], in the range of GeForce 8600 cards. For that matter, 4GPixel/s runs 40nm GeForce GT210 [2.5 GPixel/s] into the ground. Given that GeForce GT210 runs at 589 MHz for the core and 1.4 GHz for shaders. Since PowerVR SGX543 targets handheld devices, there is no saying what the performance plateau is.
An eight core SGX543MP8 at 200 MHz delivers 266 million polygons and eight billion pixels per second, while faster clocked version, for instance, at 400 MHz would deliver 532 million polygons and 16 billion pixels per second. 16 billion pixels per second equal GeForce GTX 260-216, for instance.

Matching the GTX 260 is very impressive. PS3 and X360 GPUs are based on hardware around when NVIDIA 7900 and ATI 2900 were around. They are dated. They don't mention the details on the 16 core version of the chip. Only Quad and 8 core. I assume if you double the number of the 8 core chip at 400 Mhz you get 1064 million polygons and 32 billion pixels per second. That is only if running at 400 MHz though. If running at 200 Mhz its likely to equate to same as 400 Mhz 8 core, but maybe with 32 billion pixels per second.

Also if you are taking notes on next-generation releases if PSP 2 is releasing in 2010 it makes 2011 more than 90% likely to be year of PS4 launch. We won't know until E3 2010 though. It will all bleed onto the internet before it happens, but Sony is looking to stick to its 5/10 year plan. PSP launched in 2005 and PSP 2 is now set for 2010. PS3 launched in 2006 so 2011 for PS4? I say yes.

According to the article its very possible that the new PSP 2 will support ARM as well. Its very probable that the PSP 2 will have PSP2 Go variant as well. I think Sony made a mistake making PSP Go. Sure its a plus for some or many that want it like that, but a year ahead of new launch is a little out of place. If I am correct though Microsoft is doing about the same thing with Natal and Sony is doing it with their motion stuff as well I believe.

PSP 2 to feature PowerVR Next-generation graphics chips!
Edited by DeadFire87, Oct 17 2009, 08:19 AM.
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