lundi 25 novembre 2013

Playstation 4 a cheap Supercomputer

Sony has released the Playstation 4 with a full X86 architecture, and they made a choice of a very interesting APU (CPU+GPU on the same die), the name of this ship is Liverpool, it contain 8 CPU cores and 1182 GPU cores, and 8GB GDDR5 RAM memory @ 5500MHz clock frequency, this give 176GB/s of memory bandwidth, and 1,85 TFlops of GPU computing peak Throughput, if we add the CPU performance we can have more than 2 TFlops embedded in a system that costs 400$, this is more interesting when we know that the Playstation 4 is also OpenCL 1.2 compatible, a real personal Supercomputer that can be used for a lot of other funny things.



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