[source: http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=45557 ]Izzy said:
SLI GPUs "not even scratching the surface" of PS3
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Who's the source?
If this is true, then i'm well impressed, but it sounds a bit too much to be honest. 2 6800U in SLI (current NV top of the line) are one hell of a team, and i'm not sure PS3 or any next gen console will have GPUs that are so much above that. More powerful, perhaps, but "not even scratching the surface" sounds a bit much.
Wunderchu said:
Who's the source?
If this is true, then i'm well impressed, but it sounds a bit too much to be honest. 2 6800U in SLI (current NV top of the line) are one hell of a team, and i'm not sure PS3 or any next gen console will have GPUs that are so much above that. More powerful, perhaps, but "not even scratching the surface" sounds a bit much.
Hey, they have to contain the Xbox2 momentum afterall.
Not saying this is not real... Actually, yes i am... but that's not the point.
Not saying this is not real... Actually, yes i am... but that's not the point.
Please, not the GFlop numbers game again I've heard XB360#s GPU will run 500+ GFlop. No figures are comparable, because no figures seem to use the same rating system.
2x performance will need 2x fillrate, polys, textures, etc, regardles how many GFlops it takes to achieve that.
I've heard XB360#s GPU will run 500+ GFlop. No figures are comparable, because no figures seem to use the same rating system.2x performance will need 2x fillrate, polys, textures, etc, regardles how many GFlops it takes to achieve that.
Urian said:
Well, with software coded specifically for two gpus in sli..? I'd say you might get close.
Anyway, I think the expectation of a 2x leap in performance, or more, after over 18 months isn't too much to expect based on previous graphics card cycles. Of course, a console gpu will be clocked lower than its PC counterparts, but still..I think 2 6800s in SLI isn't matching the performance the final GPU will offer. Again, though, "only scratching the surface" is a little hard to believe.
I'm more interested to here what, if any, features developers are being told to focus on and/or ignore
Evil_Cloud
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Didn't PSM also say OutRun 2 was coming to PlayStation 2?
overclocked
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Dont forget when coding to the metall in closed enviroment i´m sure a 6600GT would kill a 6800U/X850 if it were in a consol today.
overclocked said:
Probably but that's not what the article is saying.
Is this such a big deal if its true ? 2 6800ultras sounds powerfull but in the real world its performance is hardly steller . I have yet to see it do better than 1.3 x the performance of a signle 6800ultra .
So is it hard to expect on 90nm that they could add another 200mhz along with other core improvement to the new gpu ?
So is it hard to expect on 90nm that they could add another 200mhz along with other core improvement to the new gpu ?
jvd said:
I agree with the general sentiment - it's not that surprising to think that a next-gen nvidia part coming ~20 months later will outperform a 6800 ultra SLI setup, or be over 2x 6800Ultra performance - but with regard to performance on current sli setups, in fairness, there are few "benchmarks" (games) that specifically take advantage of it. If a game was coded from scratch to take advantage of it, I'm sure you'd see bigger benefits.
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jvd said:
No, but saying that 2x6800u won't even scratch the surface is saying quite a lot. How much more powerful PS3 gpu should be so that sentence is justified, for example can x600 scratch the surface of x800xt?
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