PS3 Half Polygon Performance Of 360 ??? News
The Inquirer nets information and pictures that suggest developers may have a hard time with the Playstation3...
By Chris LeytonPosted: 05/06/2006
The Inquirer has been at it again with revelations yesterday that question the overall performance of the CELL processor, throwing doubt as to whether the Playstation3 will contest the Xbox 360 in certain areas.
Stemming from information and pictures allegedly leaked from DevStation, the Inquirer alleges that the Playstation3 RSX chip will suffer in raw polygon performance, managing to push 275 million triangles p/second, compared to the 500 million+ possible on the Xbox 360.
Further still, although the information contained within this article should be enough to make most people feel technically inadequate, it appears that the CELL processor is handicapped with a local memory read bandwidth of ~16MB p/second. Developers on the Playstation3 will have to work around such a design constraint, with official Sony documentation suggesting that code shouldn't be read from local memory, but written to main memory via the RSX and read from there instead.
So there you have it, although not exactly the smoking gun that will have mainstream Playstation gamers switching allegiance to the Xbox 360, it will nonetheless be interesting to see whether developers struggle to create the visual standards that Sony has maintained - but surely they've never tried that before have they...
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Added:Fri 03rd Jul 2009 04:01, Post No: 648
but if activision goes the ps3 will start to look like the sega saturn or the dreamcast (supprisingly both sega consoles lost developers cause sony was throwing it money around now it looks like the same fate is happening to sony thanks to microsoft and nintendo),
just cause its the most powerfull dont meen its the best if that what all ps3 fanboys will say there all hypocrits when the first xbox was miles more powerfull than the ps2 yet the fanboys said the ps2 was better ???.
all i can say is hard luck and finally solid proof the ps3 isnt winning the next gen consoles.
Added:Fri 03rd Jul 2009 02:04, Post No: 647
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Added:Thu 02nd Jul 2009 20:18, Post No: 646
these people wit the word fanboys lol..well atleast its lower..been waiting for a lil price drop
Added:Sat 20th Jun 2009 14:34, Post No: 645
wow just shows how "good the ps3 is considerin activision is threatning to pull the plug =) hopefully this will shut the sony fanboys up, this just shows that your god of a console has had its last breathe =)
Added:Fri 05th Jun 2009 03:03, Post No: 644
Dumb[#@!?]germans
Added:Sat 30th May 2009 18:11, Post No: 643
I've had my PS2 for over 7 years. Still works like a charm, and I play it whenever I get a chance to. Sony makes quality products that last a very long time. When the PS3 goes down to $299.99, I'll be purchasing it. I want one now...but c'mon, $399.99!? Have mercy, Sony.
Added:Thu 21st May 2009 03:37, Post No: 642
anonymous you are a [#@!?] disgrace even joking about wanting games like that so [#@!?] off back to your sad little life
Added:Sun 17th May 2009 18:35, Post No: 641
do you know something if sony had told the world gamers that gt 5 was not coming out until 2009/2010/2011 do you think they would have sold as many units ???? i think not.prologues my eye. waste of time and £22.95p.i bought mine on the day of release,it sits there gathering dust.what a waste of £500.but bet your bottom dollar when gt 5 does arrive you wont find a ps3 except on the bay for the price of a decent family car.develepors get your fingers out and release what i hope is going to be the best driving sim of all time.
Added:Sun 17th May 2009 17:27, Post No: 640
Is it me or does it look really ugly O.o, i'll stick with my huge chunky one thanks.
Added:Sun 10th May 2009 19:12, Post No: 639
post 638 your comment makes no sence at all