Scoobes said:
From what I remember, the PS3 GPU was/is the equivalent of a scaled down NVidia GeForce 7800 which was a fairly high/mid end-chip at the time although the next gen of graphics cards with combined shader architecture were ready to release around the sametime the PS3 was released. |
The GPU in the PS3 IS a GeForce GT7800. When the dual-cell design fell flat, Sony had no time left for anything really new. Sony paid $20mio to NVidia for a slightly modified 7800 design (the dram bus interface was changed to an XDR interface, and unneded video circuitry in the GPu was taken out.