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[Wollan]

Thanks to ytsejammer39 at IGN for making me aware of this.

This news is as old as the E3 presentation for PS3 but this may have slipped past most folks.
PS3Forum just rediscovered something from the presentation.

That the RSX will have programmable shading processors instead of pipelines.

http://ps3forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=13393

 

[elostyle]

ytsejammer39 must have a really old graphics card to find this special.

 

[xaosslug]

ytsejammer39 must have a really old graphics card to find this special.

Always with the pooping on everybody's PS3 parades with you.

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

Semantics of vague word choice or something big?

February can't come soon enough.

 

[3rdman]

Thanks to ytsejammer39 at IGN for making me aware of this.

This news is as old as the E3 presentation for PS3 but this may have slipped past most folks.
PS3Forum just rediscovered something from the presentation.

That the RSX will have programmable shading processors instead of pipelines.

http://ps3forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=13393

OMG!!! Quickly goto Beyond3D and show them this amazing bit of news!!! Processors instread of piplines...holy shit!!!! RSX is the new Cell <----------make that your thread title so I can follow along.

 

[Wollan]

You(anyone) are welcome to post this at B3D. It's PS3Forum who discovered this though.

 

[elostyle]

Always with the pooping on everybody's PS3 parades with you.

THIS time it was not even meant like that :lol

Programmable shaders have been standard since DX7, right? They are sometimes still called pipelines because you have a bunch of units in row (vertex cache -> vertex shader -> pixel shader). With SM3.0 they do have a bunch of features that makes them more like processors instead of DSPs or whatever. So I guess the answer is 'yes'.