Hey Jeremy, you heard about the reduction in the PS3 OS footprint? Seems there are now more resources available to the system, a thing that xbox 360 and the wii can't do, as they had a fixed OS footprint.
On Aug 4, 5:19 am, Jeremy Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > For the PS3 comparison, there are two important things: > > extremely tight (low latency) and large "CPU" to "GPU" interconnect > bandwidth. It's the traditional advantage of a console (no PCIe interface to > mux through), along with the RISC instruction set of the Cell. Of course, > Intel would say they have instruction rich CPU that easily overpower a Cell, > however, the Cell used in the PS3 has 7 FPU (basically large vector units, > akin to something inbetween a Streaming Multiprocessor and a Shader in a > nVidia G80 GPU), which gives it a decent boost in geometry setup power, > depeding on how it's used. That, and the fact it has a bluray drive (some > games like God of War 3 use massive texture sets [30GB+] that are streamed > straight off of it), in addition to having balls to the wall minimal OS/API > overhead, lead it to have greater *useable* power. > > The GT335m is no slouch, however, it's not going to give world's better > performance over the PS3, which has one of the more unique architectures for > game devs to exploit (I still beleive the xbox360 Xenon/Xenos architecture > is far more unique). > > That being said, my trusty HP DV2 is on the fritz, and I have already > ordered a m11x (core i5, the i7 is too expensive to justify). :) > > That will be *two *steps leaving the GMA950 behind :D > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:56 PM, MAD_BEAST <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Nin-lil-izi > > > if you trust me... go for the M11X with no doubts, in my opinion is > > the best commercial personal computer on earth. > > > why? > > > becuase there is nothing so powerful and so small at the same time. > > there are smaller, true... there are more powerful, true, but nothing > > that combine both characteristics at the same time and thats all what > > we are chasing on la laptop portability and power. > > > how much? around 2000 USD with a range of 200 of under or overprice > > for a i7 2.66ghz+ 8GB DDR3+ SSD 256GB+ Nvidia m335 gt, youll get a > > higher performance than a PS3... thats all you need to know and you > > will run everything you want at highest settings for the next 2/3 > > years, becuase the market is going to stop the commercial development > > of shader model and Directx renderization... trust me > > > -- > > 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS > > -- 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
