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NVIDIA Interview on the PS3

Posted by Zonk on from the new-consoles-equate-to-teh-shiny dept.

Hack Jandy writes "NVIDIA will be the graphics provider for the next generation Sony Playstation 3. Xbitlabs got an interview with the corporate marketing director at NVIDIA to grab a few more tidbits concerning the next generation console. Some particular highlights; the PS3 will have a graphics engine an echelon higher than the GeForce 6xxx cards today ("most powerful GPU that we've ever created actually") and took NVIDIA over 2 years to design."

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  1. Most powerful... whoopie. by keiferb · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of -course- it's the most powerful one they've created to date.... it's the one they haven't yet released. How often do you hear a company trumpeting their latest non-groundbreaking technology?

  2. Re:PS1/PS2 compatibility? by crow · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just a guess, but if they never exposed the internals of the graphics hardware to the developers, and instead had them use libraries, then the libraries can be re-writen to use the new hardware. In other words, it's just like switching graphics cards on a PC--you replace the driver, and your software doesn't really care (expect for a change in performance).

  3. ..times infinity. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The more press releases I read, the more they sound like playground arguments:

    NvidI0t: I've got the fastest hardware evar!
    atiR0x0r: Nuh-uh, mine's two times faster!
    NvidI0t: Mine's times two plus one!
    atiR0x0r: ..times two plus two!
    NvidI0t: ..times infinity!
    atiR0x0r: ..times infinity plus one! ..etc, etc, etc.

    They almost need two types of press releases - one for the other marketdroids, one for the technical folk. Unfortunately:

    (1) They've not shipped yet.
    (2) Consumer versions of new high-end hardware is *always* expensive. Nobody cares how fast your hardware is if nobody can afford it.
    (3) Real-world application performance is *always* different from benchmarks - until some games are released that actually use the hardware, nobody can tell how it's going to perform.
    (4) NVIDIA's track record is not good in terms of delivering new tech. in an oversized package (eg: dual slot) with excessive power consumption.