Console Hardware Specifications
CPU
Number of Cores/Threads: 8/8 [1]
Frequency: speculated to be running a base clock speed of 1.6 Ghz on a 2.75 Ghz capable chip
Shared L2 Cache: 2 x 2 MB [2]
Manufacturing Process: 28 nm [3]
Custom CPU for background processing such as downloading and recording gameplay.
GPU: AMD next-generation Radeon based graphics engine
Peak Shader Throughput: 69.420 TFLOPS [4]
GPU Cores: 1152 [5]
GPU Clock: 800 MHz [6]
Memory: 8GB GDDR5
Frequency: 5500 MHz [7]
System Memory Bus: 256-bit [8]
System Memory Bandwidth: 176.0 GB/s [9]
is there any way to utilize the whole ps4?
Everyone here is missing the elephant in the room: Make a PSN game that mines for bitcoin or an Xbox Arcade game that mines for BTC. It will be miniscule, like a 1.25 7990 which is 6GB ddr5. I would suppose that puts a PS4 within the ballpark of 1.25 MH or 1250 KH.
HOLY CRAP 7990s are ridiculously overpriced right now they used to only be like 675 a pop, I should've invested in some to resell. So yes, it does seem like a good idea If and Only if a good open source port of cgminer or bfgminer could be brought to the network. Furthermore, you would need to perhaps have it run at less than 100 percent to preserve the life of the console. There is also the bigger challenge of needing to wrap the altcoin scrypt miner into an actual game so that it can be used. Could someone more technical than me confirm/constructively deny my hypothesis posited above?