93w ago - Today Sony PlayStation 3 hacker durandal has released OedipusRSX PS3 RSX Reality Synthesizer documentation for other developers to improve graphics utilized in PS3 homebrew applications and games.

Download: OedipusRSX PS3 RSX Documentation / OedipusRSX PS3 RSX Documentation (Mirror)

Below is some background on the PS3 RSX 'Reality Synthesizer' via Wikipedia, as follows:

The RSX 'Reality Synthesizer' is a proprietary graphics processing unit (GPU) codeveloped by Nvidia and Sony for the PlayStation 3 game console.

Unless otherwise noted, the following specifications are based on a press release by Sony at the E3 2005 conference, slides from the same conference, and slides from a Sony presentation at the 2006 Game Developer's Conference.

Specifications:

• 500 MHz on 90 nm process (shrunk to 65 nm in 2008 and to 40 nm in 2010)
  
• Based on NV47 Chip (Nvidia GeForce 7800 Architecture)
  
• 300+ million transistors
  
• Multi-way programmable parallel floating-point shader pipelines
  
• Independent pixel/vertex shader architecture