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crumas2 on 16 January 2008
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MrMafoo said:
Omac said:
People are saying later on PS3 is going to pull off better graphics.... I don't think so, with it's lackluster non shared ram and not as good GPU... The hard to program for crappy SPU CPU. PS3 will never overshadow 360 in the graphics department or online functionality.

I try to ignore purely fanboy rhetoric, but this one I have to comment on.

The PS3, in its architectural infancy, has already surpassed the 360. Ratchet and Clank could not be done on the 360. At specific types of math (not all), the PS3 is 20-30 times faster than the 360. As people learn how to tap into that power to produce a better gaming experience, you will see things you thought were not possible.

I keep hearing about what can’t be done with the PS3 (and then see it done). I tire of people putting limits on incredibly smart developers just because they don’t know how to do it.

Just because you have no idea how to harness the PS3 for an incredible gaming experience, does not mean no one does.

At MIT, they have these contests where they give people a bag of parts, and see who can make the best competing robot out of them. What these guys come up with is amazing. Throw a super computer in front of the top developers in the world, and say “make me something”, and you will get things you have never seen before.

 


I would agree that the PS3 cell CPU has a greater theoretical potential than the 3-core CPU used in the 360, and that certain wave effects, etc. can be done better/faster with high-performance bit-blitters such as the cell's SPEs (Krik and I have discussed this at length, and I concur with his assessment regarding what the SPEs are capable of).  However, 20-30 times faster than the 360?  Where did you come up with that? It's quite a leap to say that the cell processor overcomes the 3 general purpose cores in the 360's CPU by such an amazing amount.

 

Here is my suggestion for you... talk to those who ported Folding-at-Home to the PS3 and ask them if they feel that the PS3 is 20-30 times as powerful as the 360.  My guess is they'll laugh at the suggestion.  It's blazing fast, but in specific, limited ways.