Mintmaster
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Remember that I replied to this post.Understanding of PowerVR's real-world benefits isn't relevant for device makers who pick their GPUs based upon brand. Console makers, like Sony who's the topic of this thread, are selling mostly on the strength of their own brand and would be more interested in the performance of the GPU.
If you're talking about console makers and not the PC space, why'd you mention Kyro? You mention MBX vs. PSP, but what benchmarks have you run on the two? None you say? How much money did Sony save by developing it in-house for a one-time cost instead of paying a royalty on every unit? Say what you want about their interest in performance, but there's no competition here. PSP wouldn't sell any more units with AA. A thread here was even talking about how its best games aren't even 3D. Other games are based on PS2 architecture, so it makes sense to make it vaguely similar in design.
As for the CLX2, what are you comparing it with? And where did you get comparison numbers to justify the claims you're making? 90% of your argument is nothing more than conjecture. Even if you did have data, it's all outdated because today's 3D workloads have no resemblance to those of the past.
So can you lay off this ignorance crap? MBX is being licensed where it makes sense.
You don't have to convince me. I'd buy a Kyro II instead of a Geforce MX or Voodoo5 in a hearbeat, and I don't care about 640x480 benchmarks at >100fps. I'm talking about common Joe perceptions. Benchmarks like that are enough to show that T&L matters, that's all, especially for value consumers who didn't have an Athlon 1GHz. 3DMark2001 was all the rage back then, too. Anyway, now that you tell me you're not talking about video card manufacturers, this Kyro talk is meaningless.Kyro 2's performance was so favorable that, of the two benchmarks being used to argue against it, the first one, MDK2, actually shows victory for PowerVR over its most direct competition (and a near tie with higher cost competition with the highest, yet still frame rate relevant, detail setting) and the other one was 3DMark, not a relevant application in itself and not even indicative in this case of the games which budget cards, like Kyro 2, ever ran.