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ey Blue ray and Hd Dvd have been cancelled btw horsiethey are now "Merging"info iwmc
RSX is G70, 90 nanometre tweakedSony gave Nvidia no choiceBy Fuad Abazovic: Thursday 07 July 2005, 09:40YOU ALL KNOW that Sony wanted to makes its complete console based on Cell marchitecture. It eventually did it partially, as the CPU is Cell based but it learned that Cell is not that good for graphic.It had to pull some emergency strings and Nvidia was the perfect choice. It already made the Xbox graphics chip, had experience with consoles and knew all it had to know about graphics. The only bad thing was that Sony approached Nvidia very late, and didn’t leave this talented company much time to do a proper job for a Sony Playstation 3.Nvidia did make a good chip design based on 90 nanometre marchitecture but it didn’t design the chip from scratch. We were told more than once that RSX is 90 nanometre G70 adjusted to fit into a console and to do whatever it has to do.We wrote before that Sony will do those chips in its own factories so Nvidia doesn’t have to worry about yields, TSMC marchitecture and stuff like that as Sony is supposed to make everything work. Nvidia still has to tape out its RSX chip but it should happen very soon now.ATI, on the other hand, had two whole years to finish its R500 chip. We learned that it should be just enough time to make the chip design and to have it ready. Therefore, in some ways, ATI might have a slight advantage over Nvidia at least in consoles, while Nvidia is picking up fast in the discrete business. The tables are turning one more time.We don’t want to jump to any conclusions about which is better - ATI's R500 and Xbox 360 or Nvidia's RSX in Playstation 3 - as both consoles and chips have their own audiences who will be more than happy to get one of them. Xbox 360 is coming first, while Playstation 3 coming later should be backward compatible with older games. Xbox 360 will be backward compatible but not for all titles.