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>The SH-2 will be done with the multiplication before the PS1 has even started on it's 2nd cached instruction in most cases.
>The 2nd SH-2 was added because the SCU-DSP wasn't up to the task of being a fast 3D math coprocessor capable of competing with the PS1's GTE coprocessor.
Isn't this self contradictory? If one SH2 CPU could do everything R3051+GTE needs asynchronous processing for, why would it need the SCU DSP?
>It was about half the system's RAM that was SDRAM and the other half that was DRAM.
>saturn
fast RAM: SDRAM 1MB
slow RAM: FPM 1MB
VRAM: SDRAM 1.5MB
sound RAM: FPM 512KB
CD buffer: FPM 512KB
clock: 32KB SRAM
total: 2.5MB fast RAM + 2MB slow RAM + 32KB SRAM

>PS1
main RAM: 2MB EDO
VRAM: 1MB SDRAM
sound: 512KB FPM RAM
CD buffer: 32KB SRAM
Total: 2MB rather fast RAM + 1MB fast RAM + 0.5MB slow RAM + 32KB SRAM

Dunno, PS1 looks cheaper. Not to mention its SDRAM is slower than Saturn's.
>RAM prices also fell through the roof from 95-98.
But not board costs. Multi channel RAM chips is always more expensive than unified RAM. PS1's cost savings and price cuts were the most aggressive.
>If it actually worked properly yes it would be a nice system.
It did work pretty good. But the single bus RAM shared with many chips and cheap in-house built RISC core wasn't programmer friendly, it needs more assembly to get around it.
It was a cheap console that's designed to be as cheap as possible, and the point is Sega spent more to achieve less.
>Sadly in actual practice the 32X is ironically the system Jaguar fans desperately want their system to be.
Jaguar's 2D games are smoother and have much better color depth than 32X's. The 3D games are slow but that's just because of the in-house RISC core and FPU not being as strong, lack of a second CPU to offload 3D calculations to (Jerry DSP was intended for music, not multi processing, and hogs the same CPU bus) and single channel memory.

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