Groucho on 20 November 2008
| Squilliam said: If the SPEs are so so awesome at doing general purpose equations then why are they not being used in that fashion? Its pretty simple, after a while you stop blaming the developers are start blaming the tools and architecture. |
Actually, I think its a fair bet to say that any engine designed with multithreading in mind to begin with does use the SPUs for general-purpose work, in addition to intense vector math work. I think the PS3's architecture is a great one... I just think that tools have traditionally been designed around the single-core PC idea, and that the PS3 suffers (much) more from this fact, and the fact that developers are not used to thinking in parallel terms, than the X360 does.
On-topic: The authors of GT5 have clearly embraced the PS3's architecture, as have many 1st-party exclusives, and it shows in their quality. The fact that this is difficult to do, doesn't really diminish the fact that it can, and has, been done.
