Rumors indicate that Sony is still working on a new PSP model even with the release of the PSPGo only months away. Eurogamer.es is claiming to have insider sources who say that the PSP2 will have a quad-core graphics chip. This is reportedly a quad-core version of the low-power SGX543MP chip, codenamed “Hydra”. Of course, this cannot be confirmed as Sony hasn’t even announced a new model yet.
Eurogamer’s translation of the original Spanish report notes that the single core version of the chip has been demonstrated at CES running Quake 3 Arena at 30FPS. Quote from 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.
The chip is also described as being able to operate as both graphics processor and CPU, so the PSP2 could conceivably use a single chip for everything, which can save power as well as being more efficient from a programming perspective.
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Look the way is see it is the PSP is gone. Now we have the the dumb looking PSPgo. Sony should have made a PSP true cell phone or a Windows CE system. A truly more powerful PSP with UMD game and movies would be greastest system for hand world. Also fix battery use able time to the system. And more powerful sound would help too. But Like I said I thank the PSP is dead we go to the PSPgo system.