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PS3 Cell Processor 'Broken'?
D-Fly writes "Charlie Demerijian at the Inquirer got a look at some insider specs on the PS3, and says, Sony screwed up big time with the Cell processor; the memory read speed on the current Devkits is something like 3 orders of magnitude slower than the write speed; and is unlikely to improve much before the ship date. The slide from Sony pictured in the article is priceless: 'Local Memory Read Speed ~16Mbps, No this isn't a Typo.' Demerjian says when the PS3 comes out a full year after the XBox360, it's still going to be inferior: 'Someone screwed up so badly it looks like it will relegate the console to second place behind the 360.'" This is the Inquirer, so take with a grain of salt. Just the same, doesn't sound too good for Sony or IBM.
give the Sony fanboys and their brand loyality a break, would you?
Everyone knows that it will suck. So do we really have to smear it into their faces before they'll be able to spend $599 on it?
Do you tell a dude breaking his neck while driving with a segway that he's a retard?
No! You sit back and enjoy the show!
I'm all for Nintendo's new console. Its cheap, it will have amazing games AND they're not trying to make it the center of your digital home.
Yet another desperate shill for the Nintendo Wii in a story which is not about the Nintendo Wii. "Amazing games"??? How many Wii games have you played so far? Oh, that's right. Zero. No games have come out for it yet. The console itself hasn't even come out yet. All you've seen is mocked-up demos on a tricked-out game cube.
Looks like somebody else needs an intervention.
P.S. I'm not a Sony fan either. The PS3 really does look like it's going to be a steaming, nutty, light-brown lump of turd.
Yeah, but its graphics were the worst of its generation. Even the Dreamcast had much better graphics. The only reason the PS2 succeeded was Sony's superior marketing.
Someone screwed up so badly it looks like it will relegate the console to second place behind the 360.
I think they meant third after the Wii and 360. So I'm a troll - at least I have superior gaming tendencies.
But, with GPGPU techniques, read-back from the screenbuffer is becoming an increasingly popular way of doing fast computation using the massive parallelism that GPU's offer.
Why is that every time something is posted about the PS3 people go on rambling on about their Wii
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