Playstation 3: An Under Rated System

[CrazzyMan]

Neos said:

buzz off with the stupid specs geez

go play games on your ps3..
oh..wait..

Did i hurt your feelings ? Oh, i am very sorry. =)))

And why this specs are stupid? just because you don`t like them? LOL.

Here, something more about ps3 - http://www.beyond3d.com/content/interviews/38/1 :

Scott Kirkland: During the development of MotorStorm our team learned a great deal about PlayStation3 exploitation and production process refinement. While much of this knowledge fed directly into our systems, some items had to be put on hold due to their more radical nature. As we progress, these areas will be subjected to some serious re-factoring to provide increased performance both at runtime and during development.

SPU usage is a good example. The progressive development of corresponding debugging and profiling tools made thorough exploitation of this powerful resource quite challenging for the less technically biased members of the team. In the aftermath of MotorStorm, with mature tools at our disposal, we’ve been developing mechanisms to make the PPU and SPU’s power and parallelism far more accessible to our entire team, re-thinking data organization and algorithms in the process. MotorStorm only uses between 15 and 20 percent of available SPU resource, so we’re aiming to achieve a 5 fold increase in SPU performance, which should allow us to do some awesome stuff!

B3D: Cell's ability to assist RSX in rendering operations has been a topic of much debate and speculation of late.  Was Cell used in Motorstorm to perform any lighting, vertex, or other transform work?

Scott Kirkland: We don’t use the Cell’s SPUs in this way at the moment.  All of our lighting and transformation work is done in the RSX’s pixel and vertex shaders.