Thread: Any Gamers amongst us?

Originally Posted by MickRussell

You do know the PS3 has a dedicated GPU, right? I stripped mine down (long story) and they run a nVidia 7300GS GPU. The cell processor ... seriously, there's a good reason that the majority of them built go into multi-million dollar super computers. Don't get me wrong, I think Sony Corporate are a bunch of a-holes, but it's the decisions that are the problem, not the technology. Microsoft made much better strategic decisions withe the 360 ... but the hardware is just plain flakey. In excess of 50% of units sold fail under warranty and most of the rest within 3 years after.
I don't bother with games on my PC any more. I suppose I could get any of the Quake or Doom series, since they all have naitve Linux binaries available, plus there are some interesting titles out there if you are inclined, I'm just not. I was running Call of Duty under WINE at one point. There were a few graphics glitches but otherwise performance was better than running it native on Windows, which surprised me. CoD2 needs DirectX so that was a no-show.

Yeah, it has to have a GPU (it it dose need to render video some how) and it's the nvidia 7800 but its not relied upon like the xbox Radeon X1900 and or the Radeon x2900.. The PS3 GPU depend on the cells to make up for the lack of GPU power, from memory (i may be wrong) they dedicated a couple of the cells to assist with the graphics throughput.

Also, the mysterious redundant cell in the PS3 is a weird one too.

Over all there is a lot of processing power but then they are wasting it with the redundant cell and then making up for the lost GPU power and on top of that they don't have the RAM to fully utilize the all the CPU power, 256MB compared to xbox's 512mb. Games need memory! I know that alone was causing a lot of problems in the beginning with programmers converting the xbox games to the PS3.

I own the PS3 and i love it! I just think who ever came up with the hardware design for the PS3 should be shot!

PC benchmark for the following video cards, higher the score the better.

PS3 Nvidia 7800: - 566
Xbox Radeon X1900: - 699
Xbox Radeon 2900: - 747
Wii Radeon 4870: - 1743
PassMark Software - Video Card Benchmarks - High End Video Cards
Edit: My Radion 6970: 3,148 x 2 lol (well maybe x 1.5 - 1.8 due to the crossfire )

Who would have thought a Wii would have a better GPU then both console! I used to have a 4870 and they were a freak of a card, was a lower costing card (i think i only paid a couple of hundred) and it killed them all at the time!