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Re:A Suprising Discovery Inside the Steam Deck's APU by coretx on Sunday January 14, 2024 @08:45PM (#38996462)
The playstation 3 was the last "console". Everything that came after was general purpose computing crap.
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Re:A Suprising Discovery Inside the Steam Deck's APU by Dalewyn on Sunday January 14, 2024 @09:35PM (#38996840)
Gaming is general purpose computing, or at least a part of it.
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Re:A Suprising Discovery Inside the Steam Deck's APU by charcircuit on Sunday January 14, 2024 @09:29PM (#38996793)
The PS3 could do general purpose computing. Its built in operating system let you play games, watch movies, play music, browse the web, etc. At the beginning of the console's life you could even install Linux on it.

The hardware of consoles has been general purpose for decades.

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Re:A Suprising Discovery Inside the Steam Deck's APU by rpmisms on Monday January 15, 2024 @02:08AM (#38998180)
The Pentagon even built a supercomputer using PS3s as compute cores.
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Re:A Suprising Discovery Inside the Steam Deck's APU by erik on Monday January 15, 2024 @03:10AM (#38998475)
The current and previous generations of xbox and playstation do use x86 CPUs with integrated AMD GPUs. But they aren't just PCs in a small box. Using a unified pool of GDDR memory* is a substantial architectural difference.

*except for the xbox one & one s, which had its own weird setup with unified DDR3 and a programmer controlled ESRAM cache.

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