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alpha_dk on 26 November 2007

Oh, I agree with all of you that this isn't that useful for gaming. However, saying it isn't impressive is patently untrue. Realtime ray tracing is quite impressive, and if you don't agree with me... well, I suppose we'll just have to agree to disagree.



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darendt on 26 November 2007

Are people on this forum really that uneducated about the CELL processor? The CEll does most of the work on the games that are made correctly. Its the ports that rely heavely on the GPU as the 360 relies heavely on its GPU. The CELL was designed with GFX in mind. That is why they were originaly going to put 2 of them in the PS3. They went with Nvidia to make it a little easier on devs at first, and to cut costs. There was a really good video from the Warhawk devs about how they use the CELL to render everything in real-time, while the RSX is just there to make it pretty. So basicly RSX for textures, CELL for everything else. The vid isnt there anymore though since the game launched. There is however plenty of info about the CELL on the net.



Words Of Wisdom on 26 November 2007

People who think this is awesome don't really understand what a graphics card is or the actual function it performs I think.



WEWdeadeye on 26 November 2007

The cell was never originally designed for graphics processing. Sony thought it would work good for doing such things though because of its ability to knock out complex calculations and procedures in no time flat, but it wasn't made with graphics in mind. Do you know anything about the cell?



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FilaBrasileiro on 26 November 2007
libellule said:
BUT, 2 points :

- they have to use 3 PS3 !!!!!!!!!
- the car is pretty but cars in GT5 look better.

Again, I m not impressed ... sorry.

 It's obvious you don't know what Raytracing means or does.



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kirby007 on 26 November 2007

tell us o mighty one



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TWRoO on 26 November 2007

so what does this mean for those who want to play games on the system?



leo-j on 26 November 2007
libellule said:
BUT, 2 points :

- they have to use 3 PS3 !!!!!!!!!
- the car is pretty but cars in GT5 look better.

Again, I m not impressed ... sorry.

They  use 6 spe's.

Basicly its like using 1 entire PS3. The thing is that they are running linux on the ps3 as well, and they can only use 2 SPE's per console.

Whats impressive? The graphics card(RSX) is not being used at all. Just the cell, its rendering a full 3d car. Wihtout the graphics card. Imagine if you add tht power to the graphics card.



 

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kirby007 on 26 November 2007

ths is theoretical>?



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libellule on 26 November 2007

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libellule said:
BUT, 2 points :

- they have to use 3 PS3 !!!!!!!!!
- the car is pretty but cars in GT5 look better.

Again, I m not impressed ... sorry.


It's obvious you don't know what Raytracing means or does.
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==> YES !!!!!!!!!

what are Raytracing ???? is it like 4D (lol) ????

(ok leo-j, they only use 6 spe and no cell).

to others : why do you think it is "bad" to use SPE for gfx ???



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