Comments on: Howard Stringer inadvertently states European launch date [Update]

By: YODADDY

YODADDY — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:17:39 +0000

NO JOKE OR JOCK…. 12MB DOWN WITH 1MB UP I WANTED MY PS3 TO HAVE THE BEST. WHERE I HAVE 2 CABLE MODEMS AT THAT SPEED I NEED SOFTWARE THAT WILL LET ME MERGE THE 2 IN TO 1…THEN NO MORE WAITING ! kNOW WHAT i MEAN ?

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:14:51 +0000

at Segitz! You mean joking as Jocking would involve some kind of act with a Scottish person.

You crack me up, man!

By: Segitz

Segitz — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:04:24 +0000

You gotta be jocking, right?

I have 2mbits up and 192kbits down!

Of course, at University, I get 4megaBYTES per second up AND down (simultaneously), but the firewall blocks of many ports, so theres no go for bittorrent (Linux isos and WoW updates, but both can be downloaded oftern internally at even higher speeds, the Germany wide university network is one of the fastest on Earth, except of course Internet2).

And yes, he was talking about component bandwidth. Bandwidth in a system describes, how much data can flow between CPU and RAM or RAM and GPU (and so forth). As the PS3 has 2 128bit lines at the GPU (normal 128bit to GDDR3 RAM and flexio to XDR (thru CBEA iirc)), it has a pretty high bandwidth (compared to the general PC of today), nearly twice as large as the 360 (but the 360 does have its eDRAM which “saves” precious bandwidth, because it will be used for bw heavy applications like blur, AA and whatnot, which the PS3 has to do in main/local RAM).

The advantage of the PS3 is, that the 2 RAM banks dont share a BUS, so either cant starve (stalling the cpu/gpu). Theoretically, this can happen with the 360, if either needs to much bw. But is this is purely theoretical, I dont think, this will be too much of a problem NOW (I can develop into a big one though).

I hope I could give you some insight into what BW means.

(I hope, I made no mistakes here )

By: Pc

Pc — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:47:36 +0000

Damn…12 mb dl and 1mb ul is some serious shit !! I’m only pushing 8mb dl and around 400 – 500 kb ul. Anyways, I believe that the PS3 will still make the March launch….just pray guys..lol

By: Sporty

Sporty — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:40:56 +0000

Sony would be better off if they only let Phil Harrison do the talking. Stringer seems to screw up at every chance

By: YODADDY

YODADDY — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:36:08 +0000

oh as in the ps3 will do alot more than it already does … cool thanks for the info !

By: fleakitten

fleakitten — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:32:45 +0000

Sony Europe dimisses Stringers’ comments.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=22290

By: ehandlr

ehandlr — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:31:20 +0000

SCEE has already debunked this and stated they are still on a March schedule.

http://www.news4gamers.com/ClickOut.aspx?ObjID=20103