Killzone 2 VS Gears of War 2 through the eyes of a programmer

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jetrii said:

mjk45 said:
@jetrii,how much of the r&d is funded by IBM and how much by Toshiba and Sony and didn't i just read somewhere about Toshiba recently start putting them into there products and a cell super comp coming on line and 20m ps3 is a lot of chips so it seems to be picking up even if its slower than they like but i get your point about the market having to widen ,especially with programmable GPU's ready to take off even if it means a complete mobo overall

 

IBM did most of the development but Sony and Toshiba contributed a lot in funds. Also, keep in mind that the Cell processors being used in supercomputers are not the ones inside of the Playstation 3. The Playstation 3 Cell processor is fairly weak and outdated compared to the one IBM uses. IBM uses the PowerXCell 8i which had its SPEs remade with improved memory addressing and dual-precesion improvements.

But theres always this threat to worry about, the GPU market is steaming full speed ahead to take control of the GPGPU/Floating point intensive sections of the market.

OS Type	Current TFLOPS*	Active CPUs	Total CPUs
Windows	267	280518	2454931
Mac OS X/PowerPC	5	6383	124259
Mac OS X/Intel	27	8868	76696
Linux	47	27848	360667
ATI GPU	1136	10324	37173
NVIDIA GPU	1915	17410	72354
PLAYSTATION®3	1393	49409	742102
Total	4790	400760	3868182

 Just from sheer economies of scale they could take this market segment away from the Cell. For example, if Sony shipped 20M Cell chips with the PS3, the GPU market shipped 70M in the last quarter alone.