When will we get 1080P as a standard?

[MikeB]

TheBigFatJ said:

MikeB said:

I already addressed this many times, the PS3 from a technical perspective provides great technological benefits as well as shortcomings compared to modern gaming PCs. These advantages relate to Blu-Ray disc (7.1 lossless audio and graphics data streaming) and the Cell processor. Disadvantages relate to non-upgradeable system memory, GPU performance and the fact that PC games are usually entirely stored onto the harddrive.

Other long term PS3 related advantages is a fully standard basic hardware configuration with probably a decade of shelf space, which means developers will exploit and optimise for every bit of juice they can pump out of the hardware in course of time. Secondly for multi-theaded games one CPU core on a Windows box will usually be entirely dedicated to the host OS due to Windows being very inefficient draining CPU cycles (and system memory, which makes its system RAM advantage far less significant than total numbers would suggest).

Did you ever run performance diagnostics on your machine? I'm sure you were curious how often your system was context switching while you were running your games, since you are certain that Windows is consuming so many resources. Take a look -- you'll be surprised. And, Windows XP uses less than 100MB of memory at startup with a fresh install. Try again, my friend. It's also not consuming lots of memory from my video card, which, incidentally has more memory than your whole PS3. And it does more Gigaflops than your PS3's Cell + RSX, since you seem only to understand theoretical numbers.

You basically said, "The PS3 has the advantages of a console." You then list its disadvantages, which are the disadvantages of a console. If you added to the fact that the GPU is very, very slow, add that the Cell processor is "fucking slow", then I think we could agree on all points.

But, don't worry, Mike. In a few years the PS3 will show its true power and we'll all be bowing to it. It's truly an amazing piece of technology, and no one but Sony could manage to create a computer that powerful. Hell, if they could, we'd all have flying cars and pills that make our poop smell like roses.

Now if only the rest of the world could catch up to Sony's amazing alien technology and learn how to use /properly/ so that it could show us all what gaming would look like 10 years in the future.

 

For instance I did use an equivalent of SnoopDOS on the PC, it was useless to me as Windows does so many seemingly useles things in the background while being completely idle from the user perspective, it gave me a headache and I didn't know what most of the files were used for anyhow (it's a very closed system).

An interesting quote from Tim Sweeney (head developer at Epic, a highly acclaimed long time PC developer):

"keep in mind that the Windows XP driver model for Direct3D is quite inefficient, to such an extent that in many applications, the OS and driver overhead associated with issuing Direct3D calls approaches 50% of available CPU cycles. Hiding this overhead will be one of the major immediate uses of multi-core. " Source: AnandTech interview