rustyjaw Posted July 29, 2003 Report Share Posted July 29, 2003 From IGN: The specifications: UMD(Universal Media Disc) 60mm Laser Diode:660nm Dual Layer :1.8GB Transfer Rate:11Mbps Shock Proof Secure ROM by AES Unique Disc ID PSP CPU CORE MIPS R4000 32bit Core 128bit Bus 1 - 333MHz @ 1.2V Main Memory :8MB(eDRAM) Bus Bandwidth :2.6GB/sec I-Cache, D-Cache FPU, VFPU (Vector Unit) @ 2.6GFlops 3D-CG Extended Instructions PSP Media Engine MIPS R4000 32bit Core 128bit Bus 1 - 333MHz @ 1.2V Sub Memory:2MB(eDRAM) @ 2.6GB/sec I-Cache, D-Cache 90nm CMOS PSP Graphics Core 1 3D Curved Surface + 3D Polygon Compressed Texture Hardware Clipping, Morphing, Bone(8) Hardware Tessellator Bezier, B-Spline(NURBS) ex 4x4, 16x16, 64x64 sub-division PSP Graphics Core 2 'Rendering Engine' + 'Surface Engine' 256bit Bus, 1-166 MHz @ 1.2V VRAM :2MB(eDRAM) Bus Bandwidth :5.3GB/sec Pixel Fill Rate :664 M pixels/sec max 33 M polygon /sec(T&L) 24bit Full Color:RGBA PSP Sound Core: VME Reconfigurable DSPs 128bit Bus 166MHz @1.2V 5 Giga Operations /sec CODEC 3D Sound, Multi-Channel Synthesizer, Effecter, etc AVC Decoder AVC(H.264) Decoder Main Profile Baseline Profile @Level1,Level2,Level3 2Hours(High Quality) - DVD movie 4Hours(Standard Quality) - CS Digital I/O USB 2.0 Memory Stick Extension Port(reserved) Stereo Head phone Out Communication Wireless LAN (i802.11) IrDA USB 2.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted July 29, 2003 Report Share Posted July 29, 2003 So 12MB or RAM total on the little guy, you can definetely tell its Sony built by the RAM amount. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camp Posted July 29, 2003 Report Share Posted July 29, 2003 Still no pics? Artist renderings? Are there two R4000's or are they just listing the single R4000 as both the CPU and the "Media Engine"? If it's two then that's pretty impressive...wouldn't that be double the PSone? If they can price it right Gameboy is history. Then again, those Gamecube discs would fit in a portable player very nicely...and the Gamecube formfactor could be viewed as an initial manufacturing step toward a future handheld version (the price point is almost low enough to add a screen and additional costs of shrinking the unit a bit further). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustyjaw Posted July 29, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2003 What would make this thing truly rock is if they could manage a 640x480 (or a 16x9 equivalent) display (using OLEDs!), but I suspect that's not going to happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted July 29, 2003 Report Share Posted July 29, 2003 Still no pics? Artist renderings? Are there two R4000's or are they just listing the single R4000 as both the CPU and the "Media Engine"? If it's two then that's pretty impressive...wouldn't that be double the PSone? If they can price it right Gameboy is history. Then again, those Gamecube discs would fit in a portable player very nicely...and the Gamecube formfactor could be viewed as an initial manufacturing step toward a future handheld version (the price point is almost low enough to add a screen and additional costs of shrinking the unit a bit further). And the PowerPC G3 and ATi Mobile GPUs are both very good at power managment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camp Posted July 29, 2003 Report Share Posted July 29, 2003 Interesting...this thing might match (or better) the PS2 in most respects. I looked up some console specs and the PSP seems to have more in common with the PS2 than the PSone. PSone Main Memory: 2MB Graphics memory: 1MB CPU: R3000A CPU Clock: 33.8 Mhz PS2 Main Memory: 32MB Graphics memory: 4MB CPU: Emotion Engine (Modified R4000) CPU Clock: 300 Mhz PSP Main Memory: 8MB Graphics memory: 2MB CPU: R4000 CPU Clock: 333 Mhz The RAM does suck but the CPU is no slouch. And if there are really two R4000's in there...whoa! Drop some more RAM in this puppy! (though I doubt such a small screen really requires much RAM) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark E Posted July 30, 2003 Report Share Posted July 30, 2003 Specs talk the talk, but whether they walk the walk is a whole other kettle of fish. I'm not saying that the PSP won't possibly be good, there's little history of Sony doing things half-assed, but I don't think we should be slashing off the GBA's market share just yet. Let's actually see it and see it run something. And have a price point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted July 30, 2003 Report Share Posted July 30, 2003 there's little history of Sony doing things half-assed Ask a minidisc user about how a minidisc player/recorder uploads to a PC. (Hint: it doesn't, or at least only in real-time recording into your PC's line-in jack). I think that when it comes to rights-management in particular, Sony The Electronics Company is more than willing to sell cripplewear to protect Sony The Publisher. -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted July 30, 2003 Report Share Posted July 30, 2003 there's little history of Sony doing things half-assed I wouldn't call their PS2 developer tools full-assed personally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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