Playstation 3 e3 thread 2

You're right but we're talking about marketing numbers

I can't see another way to match that number with the PS3 GPU.

 

Thanks! GoW looks much better IMO.

 

are those fricken ingame? The picture with the guy being shot and falling looks very nice....and the shot of the Missle Launcher rocks

 

Official Specs talk about 256 mb vram, not 512

 

Well FlexIO is ~ 77 GB/s

But I think we're getting conflicting info... :?

 

Yep, thanks! And lmao at the guy in the back of the car on the 2nd pic.

 

On second thought, those KillZone could perhaps be realtime... resolution is exactly 720p... *prays that they're aiming for 60 Hz*

 

Thanks

 

Um dude, x360 has 256GB/s b/w to eDRAM in the same way PS3 sports 2TFLOP numbercrunching performance, or in other words: Not At All.

Actual bandwidth is 64GB/s, which isn't anything to sneeze at either I might add.

I'm sort of split in regards to PS3. The raw hardware specs leave me with a cold feeling of disappointment (the geek in me was expecting monster specs I suppose). Only 256MB main RAM and apparantly no eDRAM for GPU is, well...not exactly top notch, and the non-unified memory layout can make it messy for programmers to balance memory requirements on top of all the other juggling acts of keeping track of a main CPU + 7 SPEs. The "low" clock speed for the cell isn't encouraging the geek in me either. While I didn't expect 4.6GHz, I sure hoped for an even 4, just for the nice round number. Oh well, that's the punishment for getting ones' hopes up! *spanks self*

Memory problems could perhaps be fixed by harddrive swapping, but as the specs sheet mentions harddrive SLOT makes me wonder if the unit will actually be delivered with one included as standard. If it has to be purchased separately I wonder if software will be written to take advantage of it as virtual memory...

On the other hand, the I/O capabilities of this thing are just CRAZY. 3xgigabit ethernet, bluetooth, wireless ethernet, 3xflashrom slots (I expected like, two MEMORYSTICK slots, and here it offers both SD and CF in addition to MS! Insane!), plus more USB ports than you can shake a stick at... Crazy! Plus the design of the unit is just plain gorgeous, particulary in black. I'll be afraid to touch it, with that glossy finish...

Controller on the other hand... Well, if I thought x360 controller looked like a toy, what on earth should I call THIS freaky thing?! I guess Logitech will sue Sony now, didn't they make a batarang controller for the PC once? Or is this Logitech's surplus stock they sold to Sony? I know they made the Eyetoy for Sony, maybe they're having a corporate relationship of some sort...

Controller = super weird and ugly, and I'm disappointed there hasn't been any evolution in the sony camp EITHER. Same damn stick layout, same damn button layout... :? I wonder, will two of the shoulder buttons be turned into analog paddles just like with the XB/GC (and DC I might add)? I sure wish so.

All my hopes for a better, cooler controller now lives with the originators of the modern joypad; Nintendo. Don't let me down, Miyamoto!

Oh, and one final "disappointment": doesn't seem to be a dedicated sound DSP in PS3 just like with x360. From what I can read in the specs, it appears the main CPU is dedicated to rendering sound also. Oh well.

Still, native support for dolby digital sounds great! And apparantly there is VGA out too? Not sure, but I hope so. If that's the case I can just hook up the PS3 to my Dell 1905FP and the optical SPDIF to my Z680s and game away, that would be GREAT.

By the way: where are the cooling vents for this thing? Since it's made to both sit flat and stand upright, I am guessing they won't be on either the small bottom side when standing up, nor on the large bottom side when lying down. And the front and rear shots shows there are no vents there either. That leaves just the top... Maybe the thing is entirely made out of metal, acting as a giant heatsink? Nah. Don't think so after all.

 

second pic

its like they have REAL hair on their heads!


heh nice

 

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=521616#521616

NVIDIA PR.

 

size??

 

Nope that was the CPU in Xenon.

 

Casings mirrored at PC watch, in case the SCEI site is down
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20050517/sce.htm

 

Actually it was the X360 CPU capable of 9 billion dot product ops/sec.
X360 GPU quoted at 48 billion shaders ops/sec, PS3 GPU quoted at 100 billion shaders ops/sec (not that I believe anything Sony/NV say)
http://www.tomshardware.com/game/200505121/xbox_360-04.html

 

FROM THE PSINEXT FORUM!!!!

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May have been posted before...

http://engadget.com/entry/1234000050043558/

 

The 51 billion number could also refer to the CPU. It's way easier to obtain 51 with 3.2 than with 550.

 

and these screens kill everything else that was shown on the xbox 360 thus far so whats your point? the PS3 can run GoW itself.