When will we get 1080P as a standard?

[MikeB]

Profcrab said:

MikeB said:

HappySqurriel said:

MikeB said:

What?

Within a couple of years PS3 games will run circles around what most currently sold PCs are able to achieve by that time. Cell and Blu-Ray are going to make a long term difference.

The Cell processor will have similar performance to processors that were released using a similar process and have a similar number of transistors

Plenty of research documents show you are plainly wrong. In terms of raw processing power the Cell can perform multiple times faster than commonly sold x86 desktop CPUs today at all optimised software tasks. The x86 CPUs carry around lots of legacy garbage and non-crucial (note I am not saying useless to everyone) features. I look at the Cell as a processor adopting the philosophy of achieving elegance trough simplicity.

The cell processor was designed to be a next generation workstation/server chip by IBM. Gaming applications are altogether different. Games are not designed the same way as most office and commercial apps. The true statement is that most of the power of the Cell is untapped. The ugly underside of that true statement is that games don't need most of what the Cell has to offer. Sony further handicapped it by giving a small amount of memory dedicated to it. Games on the PS3 will improve as developers use it more efficiently but what must be understood is that it is not a gaming processor. The games will not improve as dramatically as you believe. This vast untapped potential it has is better used in a server farm. This is why people have looked at the PS3 for those applications.

There are two kinds of Cell naysayers I see dominant on forums. Those who claim the Cell is optimised for multi-media applications and thus is useless for serious stuff and others like you who seem to claim the opposite.

The Cell chip is a multi-media powerhouse, excellently suited for gaming purposes as well as for building a new unrivalled supercomputer. There are however various considerations, that's why I stated back in 2005 it's going to take a long time before developers will get the most out of this CPU relating to redesigning legacy game engines.