Panajev2001a
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No need to waste dedicated hardware on that, when you have ~ 1 TFLOP under the hood.
SEIZE HIM!!!! SEIZE HIM!!!!
No need to waste dedicated hardware on that, when you have ~ 1 TFLOP under the hood.
PZ said:Ah, my head asplode. I give up trying to predict.
On the one hand this is pretty cool considering that the PS3 will have a well tested and high quality GPU with lots of features.
On the other hand, the wilder ideas about Sony's graphics amibitions seem less in reach. I mean nVidia is great and they have tons of performance but I liked that reconfigurable bit level mesh patent.
Given the time frame (6-8 months) it looks like it will be a DX10 level part. There just isn't enough time to do something more unconventional. At least that's how I see it.
One of the previous posts got it right too cause it looks like Toshiba and Kihara R&D people got cut out by nVidia. I wonder if nVidia (and ATI) has so many shader patents that it was too hard to work around them.
Fox5 said:PZ said:Ah, my head asplode. I give up trying to predict.
On the one hand this is pretty cool considering that the PS3 will have a well tested and high quality GPU with lots of features.
On the other hand, the wilder ideas about Sony's graphics amibitions seem less in reach. I mean nVidia is great and they have tons of performance but I liked that reconfigurable bit level mesh patent.
Given the time frame (6-8 months) it looks like it will be a DX10 level part. There just isn't enough time to do something more unconventional. At least that's how I see it.
One of the previous posts got it right too cause it looks like Toshiba and Kihara R&D people got cut out by nVidia. I wonder if nVidia (and ATI) has so many shader patents that it was too hard to work around them.
Nvidia will actually be reviving their nv2 chipset so the ps3 will use quads, and they'll combine it with their 3dfx and gigapixel tech so it will also be a tile based renderer and have SLIed graphics chips. So basically a big combination of everything with big hype that failed. Oh, and had a big fan on top of it.
That would've been referring to a next-generation graphics system from Evans and Sutherland, a developer of high-end solutions for markets like military simulators and arcades. E&S technologies were used in some past pre-PlayStation Namco arcade boards and were competitors to the likes of Lockheed Martin Marieta's Real 3D.hey megadrive, whats a E&S TR5?
Given the time frame (6-8 months) it looks like it will be a DX10 level part. There just isn't enough time to do something more unconventional. At least that's how I see it.
The custom graphics processor unit (GPU) will merge Nividia's next-generation GeForce technology with SCEI's system solutions.
function said:Sony have the advantages of brand awareness, image, marketing clout and being firmly entrenched in the number one spot this generation. But that's with or without this announcement.
It seems I'm missing something big.
Jov said:If anything, this will bring the PC centric gamers across, whereas they'd have go MS's way.
Vince said:Johnny Awesome said:But as you stated before Vince: It doesn't matter. The consumer won't see the difference. Games, marketing, branding. That's where the real battle will be fought. I'm not claiming a win on either side at this point. We need to see the actual games and marketing campaigns that will be unveiled over the next several months. Nothing is really a given at this point. Nothing's ever been a given in this business.
I think the consumer will see a difference (contrary to what everyone is predicting) and I think Sony will be sure to press it home as they did against Sega.
Johnny Awesome said:So you're changing your tune then about hardware not mattering from a couple of years back? That's fine, but don't accuse others of inconsistency. You're 180 degree turn on the hardware question is more interesting to me than this press release, which merely confirms that the PS3 will be powerful. Something we already knew.
Vince said:I could argue the finer points about "hardware not mattering" and how it's different from consumers "seeing a difference".
Or I could just say, whatever, good times.
DopeyFish said:Don't forget that Sony is probably putting in their old PSX/PS2 chips into PS3. This means more $$$ to dish out. And if EE/VU was any indication... CELL will be very expensive. So once that's all said and done, Microsoft probably gearing to lose about as much at launch as they did with Xbox (this time without a hard drive)...
DaveBaumann said:Jov said:If anything, this will bring the PC centric gamers across, whereas they'd have gone MS's way.
I doubt this alone will have much of a sway, espacially since the XNA cross-portability is already reasonably well embedded. Its more likely to bring PC centric developers across, which in turn will help on the gaming side.