Reasonable said:
Actually, throughout the post there's a fair number of opposing views (backed by similar analysis) that indicate the PS3 gigaflops potential exceeds 360... I've come to the following conclusions: 1) its better to play games on consoles that debate their processing power when so many conflicting views exist 2) nobody, no matter how well intentioned, seems able to offer an objective and unbiased view on these matters |
Alright I can't take it anymore this thread won't die and it keeps taunting me on the front page....
Well I can tell you that no self respecting computer scientist would argue real world performance in terms of "FLOPS potential". This is the realm of marketing droids of various hardware manufacturers.
I for one stopped reading the OP when he said the SPEs were DSPs. No. Follow his IBM link, then wiki DSP. You will find that they are not the same. Not even close. These people are just putting words --whose meaning they don't understand-- together to support their POV in this bizarre manifestation of identity politics the console wars have evolved into.
You can safely ignore the OP as it's a pretty safe assumption that it's based purely on emotion.
Now look at all the posts that say the SPEs are floating point blah, not integer blah. Lets pretend for a moment that you can't read the damn pictures on the posted link which has a box in the even pipeline which has both floating point and fixed point arithmetic in it. What exactly do people think floating point numbers are represented with? You can safely ignore these posts as well.
Nobody, certainly not from those emotionally attached to Sony, seem to mention that the xbox360 has dedicated hardware for AA. I take that back. Some of those who are emotionally attached to MS refer to it as 10MB of some kind of super special magic ram.
What does it matter how biased or unbiased any opinions offered here are? I see very little evidence that understanding of the facts have significant influence on any of the conclusions I read (didn't read every post, but I'm pretty sure I read enough). Therefore, if it wasn't for bias the conclusions would just have a gaussian distribution. Thus I think I can give you a picture of what your bias free vgchartz would look like as we can closely emulate this theoretical universe by flipping a coin. Heads person X says the CBE is "more powerfull". Tails person X says Xenon is "more powerfull".
