quote Eurogamer

The obvious difference of course is that the SGX543MP is a multicore processor, available with anything up to 16 cores on tap. According to the original report, PSP2 opts for a quad configuration offering notional specs of 133 million polygons per second, and 4Gpixels/sec fillrate, assuming that Hydra operates at the chip's low-end of 200MHz (higher speed variants are also available, presumably for desktop use). While specs like this are always subject to interpretation, these figures are a ballpark match for the original Xbox. However, PowerVR's tech includes tile-based deferred rendering, which should provide a nice performance boost.

<sub>Also according to this, the chip allows to work together as a GPU and a CPU which means the chip can do both the CPU and GPU by itself. Which should in theory lower power consumption as well as make it easier to program for.

But nothing is confirmed, but this sounds pretty cool tbh. I'm hoping it's true.</sub>

quote Luigi Panache

Sadly, that kind of power would still lead to massive overheating causing your PSP2 to melt. As of right now, of course.

quote Final Blade

<sub>Actually, I put eurogamer on the link name cause it's from them but I found it at QJ. It's not fail.

This is still a rumor anyway.</sub>

It wasn't really a fail in the first place, but it was a funny picture.

quote Xhizors

That would take the Portable out of the PlayStation Portable. Perhaps a 528mHz processor. But I can't see that you could stuff a 3.2GHz Cell processor that would run linux in a PlayStation Portable.

_{If they can fit it smaller into the PSP2 design, I don't see why they can't. You expect the PSP2 to be hardware superior to the first much like any Sony gaming consoles.}

quote Final Blade

_{If they can fit it smaller into the PSP2 design, I don't see why they can't. You expect the PSP2 to be hardware superior to the first much like any Sony gaming consoles.}

quote Luigi Panache

quote Final Blade

_{If they can fit it smaller into the PSP2 design, I don't see why they can't. You expect the PSP2 to be hardware superior to the first much like any Sony gaming consoles.}

But then there's also the whole power issue. A cooling fan as well as the already power hungry processor would cause the current battery technology in the PSP to feel like lava after an hour or so. There's a lot of problems to overcome.

quote Ville_Valo

I expect more from the next PS2 to be honest. It's currently just behind PS2, and they're looking to bring it up to Xbox standards? That's not a very big leap.
Assuming it's accurate and all.

quote Ville_Valo

I expect more from the next PS2 to be honest. It's currently just behind PS2, and they're looking to bring it up to Xbox standards? That's not a very big leap.
Assuming it's accurate and all.

quote Wikipedia

The system's processor is a 200 MHz SH-4 with an on-die 128-bit vector graphics engine, 360 MIPS and 1.4 GFLOPS (single precision), using the vector graphics engine. The graphics hardware is a PowerVR2 CLX2 chipset, capable of 7.0 million polygons/second peak performance and trilinear filtering. Graphics hardware effects include gouraud shading, z-buffering, anti-aliasing, per-pixel translucency sorting and bump mapping. The system supports approximately 16.78 million colors (24-bit) color output and displays interlaced or progressive scan video at 640x480 video resolution.

For sound, the system features a Yamaha AICA Sound Processor with a 22.5 MHz 32-Bit ARM7 RISC CPU operating at 45 MHz,[17], 64 channel PCM/ADPCM sampler (4:1 compression), XG MIDI support and 128 step DSP.

The Dreamcast has 16 MB 64 Bit 100 MHz of main RAM, 8 MB 4x16-bit 100 MHz video RAM and 2 MB 16-bit 66 MHz sound RAM. [18] The hardware supports VQ Texture Compression (5:1 texture compression)[17]

The system reads media using a 12x maximum speed (Constant Angular Velocity) Yamaha GD-ROM Drive. The Dreamcast can also read data from a Visual Memory Unit ("VMU") removable storage device and 4x memory cards that hold four times as much data. Input devices such as game controllers are connected to four USB-like "Maple Bus" ports.

In most regions, the Dreamcast included a removable modem. The original Asia/Japan model had a 33.6 kbit/s; consoles sold in Japan after September 9, 1999 had a 56 kbit/s modem. All American models had a 56 kbit/s modem, while all PAL models had a 33.6 kbit/s modem. Brazilian models manufactured under license by Tec Toy did not include a modem, which was available separately. The regular modem could be replaced with a broadband adapter that was sold separately.

quote Ville_Valo

This kicks the shit through it.