PS3 is weaker than expect?

[PSman]

http://www.xboxic.com/news/781

The article sound bias, but it does bring up some good point (I think). I'm not a technical guy, so, what's your opinion on this article?


*put on flame shield*

 

[Carl B]

No one's going to flame *you* PSMan, but that article is terrible.

Just for the sake of it, this is my copy and pasted reaction from another post of mine on the subject:

Man but do these guys get it wrong. First of all, no doubt Sony is pulling a hype trick - but that has nothing to do with those benchmarks. What's even worse is that that site insinuates IBM was testing PS3 rather than just Cell itself. As if IBM cares about PS3's performance.

The numbers come from these tests here from last year:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-cellperf/

There was extensive discussion on the subject back in the day... but what's even worse about that article is that they take the real world Flops performance of Cell and compare it to the theoretical* performance of the XeCPU. I hate to bust up the party, but not only is the real max theoretical Flops count of the XeCPU more realistically ~75 GFlops, but it would never reach that number itself in a real world situation either.

* No CPU can or will ever hit it's theoretical maximum under practical conditions.

 

[NavNucST3]

No one's going to flame *you* PSMan, but that article is terrible.

Just for the sake of it, this is my copy and pasted reaction from another post of mine on the subject:

Could you even call that an article, I mean Acerts posts are longer AND better than that...

 

[Kabbage]

Wow the only thing worse than the article itself are some of the user comments


"The PS3 numbers are based on 8 cells running in a vacuum withouth an OS… The PS3 will only be using 3, and then you slap the OS in there ... They are being untruthful, whereas MS is just being optimistic… "

"killzone is the halo killer hmmmmmmm dont remember it selling 125mill copies on its first day"

"i still say u should buy a ps3 if u like japanese games"

Wow....

 

[Acert93]

Could you even call that an article, I mean Acerts posts are longer AND better than that...

Oh wait, you're talking about me! Considering the context I am not sure that is a compliment or not! Based on the PMs in my box it is probably some of both (Edit: Not PMs from NucNavST3... oh never mind... just digging myself a nice hole here!)