MS big screw up: EDRAM

Oh no...in come the ******'s, you have started it now.

 

RE4 was scaled back for PS2 so it's simple fact. Get over it.

Bill we are talking about Graphics not sales figures...

 

Bill's not talking about graphics, he's ranting about edram.

 

WTF??? i am over it, i was mearly pointing out that your statement would trigger the fanboi's and turn this thread into a flame-a-thon.

 

ATI. Knows more than you do.

 

You know how good RSX is?

 

I'll ask this question again Bill - and it's important that you try to understand and answer it because your whole argument is based on a lack of understanding here. How many transistors are there in a single memory chip? Even better, when you look at a graphics cards how many transistors are there in total and what is the relative distribution of them across the board? Perhaps more to the point, if the Xenos chip was a standard PC GPU (ie. ROPs imbedded into the processing core and DDR-SDRAM was the local memory), how many transistors would be in the RAM?

 

the EDRAM was placed there for a reason...

since Xenos has a different design it needs a high bandwidth interface for post processing...

same as how ps2 was with its design...

 

I find it obvious that this thread is doomed to failure from the start. We're up to 27 posts, and 10 of those are from Bill ffs... can't you just can it now, mods?

 

Bill i can see were your coming from, that at this momnet in time the EDRAM looks like a complete watse, but would it not be better to wait for a few years and let Dev's get used to the EDRAM before any rants about how it's use'less start being shouted???

Time will tell

 

This topic sucks.

 

LOL

 

Seconded.

 

So? Do you want your PC graphics card constantly using the system RAM? Does the PS3 use system RAM for all its rendering? Does the PS2, PS1, XBox or GC do this?

Okay, I'll spell it out to you, since you're clearly NOT getting it. DRAM contains transistors - therefore any local memory for the graphics chip will contain transistors. It doesn't matter whether it's EDRAM or DDR-SDRAM, transistors are going to be needed for local memory.

 

er...... Because Nivida did'nt want it??

Or was that a trick question??

 

Soooo...PS2 had eDRAM, XBox did not - and we all know who was the big winner sales last generation. According to your logic, surely having no eDRAM must suck as well. Tough choice, that one - either way XBox 360 is f***d...



I'd suggest you read this:
http://www.beyond3d.com/articles/xenos/