Now, how does this nVidia relationship mean in the light of the previous news of SCEA recruiting shader-compiler engineers?
CONFIRMED: PS3 to use "Nvidia-based Graphics processor&
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1.) That's got to be the fasting growing thread i saw in a while here.
2.) Is that the reason why nVidia performance in the PC market has been somewhat lacking in the past ~2 years?
3.) Does that increase the possibility to make PS3 backwards compatible to ... the XBOX
2.) Is that the reason why nVidia performance in the PC market has been somewhat lacking in the past ~2 years?
3.) Does that increase the possibility to make PS3 backwards compatible to ... the XBOX
Megadrive1988
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I honestly was not expecting this. I always knew it was possible, ever since the 1st half of 2003 when Nvidia CEO made all those comments about probably not doing Xbox 2 graphics and that PS3/CELL was a 'miracle machine' and blah blah blah. but I really thought Sony would go its own way yet again, for the 4th time (PS1, PS2, PSP, PS3).
well now, the masters of hype join forces !
together at last
well now, the masters of hype join forces !
together at last
Megadrive1988
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this really is huge for Nvidia. after PS3 is completed and assuming the Nvidia side of things are all good, Nvidia gets first shot at PSP2 and PS4 graphics. think about it.
ultimate_end
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Lol at Megadrive's "Masters of Hype" post.
Don't even joke about something like that dude!
Before we know it, we'll have a "PetaFLOPS" supercomputer in our TVs!
McFly said:Nvidia Flops, here we come.
Don't even joke about something like that dude!
Before we know it, we'll have a "PetaFLOPS" supercomputer in our TVs!
Megadrive1988
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interesting.
I'm currently thinking that PS3 is CELL CPU and 'CELL-(G)Force' GPU.
APUs / SPUs are still most likely the GPUs front end. there is Local Storage and eDRAM and nVidia Pixel Engines / ROPs / Pixel Shaders (4.0+?) and Image Cache and CRTC.
PS3 should have easy and managable anti-aliasing (a good method, something post NV40) good tri-linear and aniostropic filtering, proper mipp-mapping, pixel shaders of some sort. everything that a Sony or Sony-Toshiba or Toshiba GPU would probably be lacking.
What does this mean for games development?
Given that MS confirmed ATI for Xenon about 15 months ago, and presumeably began to circulate firm specs to key developers around this time, does this mean that PS3 development is 15 months behind, or were specs secretly circulated a while ago (on the assumption of this confirmation)?
How would this bode for PS3 games that are rumoured to appear around March 2006? Perhaps this can shed some light on the rumoured developer issues surrounding early PS3 development. Could any developers speculate?
Given that MS confirmed ATI for Xenon about 15 months ago, and presumeably began to circulate firm specs to key developers around this time, does this mean that PS3 development is 15 months behind, or were specs secretly circulated a while ago (on the assumption of this confirmation)?
How would this bode for PS3 games that are rumoured to appear around March 2006? Perhaps this can shed some light on the rumoured developer issues surrounding early PS3 development. Could any developers speculate?
Megadrive1988
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remember the transistor ratio of GS to EE (including eDRAM) was something like between 3:1 and 4:1. if the Sony-Nvidia GPU has anything like a similar ratio to PS3 CPU, that would likely mean over a billion tranies for the GPU, no?
Now lets see how the market responds to ATI stock and Nvidia stock.
Nvidia climbed nearly $2, and I think it will continue...anyone who bought Nvidia at $9 early this year must be smiling
ATI should still hold up, but possibly drop slightly.
This is shocking news, but so good to know PS3 Graphics should be on par with anything ATI comes up with.
Speng.
Nvidia climbed nearly $2, and I think it will continue...anyone who bought Nvidia at $9 early this year must be smiling
ATI should still hold up, but possibly drop slightly.
This is shocking news, but so good to know PS3 Graphics should be on par with anything ATI comes up with.
Speng.
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It doesn't mean PS3 is 15 months behind..just that Sony's information release re. PS3 is 15 months behind
Cell workstations aka early PS3 dev kits are already in the hands of game developers, so March/Apr/May 2006 for launch seems very plausible.
But is this a release of a decision that was made and a contract that was signed (say) 15 months ago, or only recently?
Do these Cell workstations include the Nvidia technology that this statement covers? Is this Nv technology a core component of the Cell workstation (I wasn't under that impression)?
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