SEGADRIVE versus PS4

The Sony Playstation 4 is a high powered machine, but it may not be as powerful as previously thought. According to the information, The PS4 will use a Intel Larrabee instead of an AMD Radeon, meaning Sony has choosen a less expensive mircoprossor. The Intial clock speed is about 2.6 GHZ and uses about 10 TERAFLOPS and 20 GIGFLOPS will 32 L2 Cahce. The GPU is not known. but believed to be an Radeon Cypress.

This means that the system will be less powerful than SEGADRIVE which uses a Intel i7 core Lynnfield 860 running a clock speed of a whopping 2.8 GHZ and about 32 GIGFLOPS with 32 L2 Cache and 8 L3 Cache. Sega with the help of emerging Japanese PC company Fujistu and its old rival long retired from gaming and having forgiven SEGA for the bad blood regaurding development of Dreamcast “NEC Coporation” has obtained a $260 price CPU Core i7.