NVIDIA CALLS its 90 nanometre graphic core of Playstation 3, RSX. This graphic chip is set to work at 550MHz and Nvidia can guarantee that a million chips will work at this speed as it's not that challenging at this process level. Nvidia can obviously make G70 work fine at 550MHz but it can not ship millions of those chips, more likely tens of thousands. When it comes to Playstation RSX we have every reason to believe that this chip is already taped out, as Nvidia plans to have G71 in Q1 2006 already. We expect to see some of these cards even before CeBIT in March 2006. We managed to confirm that we can actually talk about RSX, as it's G71 and vice versa. Sony just wants millions of chips and it can get them at 90 nanometre. When it comes to graphic performance, the RSX can process 24 pixels with its 24 pipelines while an Xbox 360 powered with ATI's Xenos, R500 chip can do no more no less than double, 48 pixels per clock. When it comes to G71 as a graphic chip, Nvidia will get that chip to insane speeds and we expect at least 650 to 700MHz for the cherry picked top of the range. Best of all, Sony and Nvidia can position the Geforce 7800 GTX with 512MB to be the performance estimates of RSX chips but we doubt that RSX will have memory working at an insane 1700MHz plus. Remember RSX is here to stay for at least five more years and it has to go down to 65 nanometre and 45 in next few years to make it cheaper to produce. ยต The Inq
Good news for both the PS3 and especially the 360! Don't know how they can create a GPU that advanced and sell it all for for $300!
More than likely they'll sell them at a loss, and make up for it on games and royalties. Consoles are always a gamble for the manufacturer.
