G71 is the Playstation 3 RSX Chip

NVIDIA calls its 90 nanometre graphic core of Playstation 3, RSX. This graphic chip is set to work at 550MHz and Nvidia can guarantee that a million chips will work at this speed as it’s not that challenging at this process level.. ..When it comes to Playstation RSX we have every reason to believe that this chip is already taped out, as Nvidia plans to have G71 in Q1 2006 already. We expect to see some of these cards even before CeBIT in March 2006.

We managed to confirm that we can actually talk about RSX, as it’s G71 and vice versa. Sony just wants millions of chips and it can get them at 90 nanometre. When it comes to graphic performance, the RSX can process 24 pixels with its 24 pipelines while an Xbox 360 powered with ATI’s Xenos, R500 chip can do no more no less than double, 48 pixels per clock.

the Inquirer