Before Saying Xbox is being smoked by ps3

[linuxgod]

Here are the facts: Nvidia uses separate Vertex and Pixel Shaders, ATI uses a Unified Shader which does both Vertex and Pixel Shading using the same Shader. When Nvidia calculates performance, it totals both Vertex and Pixel Shaders running at peak efficiency. When ATI calculates performance, it totals the performance of the single unified shader (composed of both Pixel and Vertex shaders) at peak efficiency. So this means that in order to compare ATI's performance to Nvidia's, you would double the rated performance.

PS3:

CPU=0.25 TFlops

GPU=1.80 TFlops for both Pixel and Vertex Shaders

XBOX360:

CPU=0.18 TFlops

GPU=0.88 TFlops for Unified Shaders=1.75 TFlops for combined Pixel and Vertex Shaders

So the PS3 has a total theoretical of about 2 TFlops and XBox 360 has about 1.9 TFlops (counting Pixel and Vertex shaders separately, as the PS3 does).

[high-as-a-kite]

Ima newb, whats a teraflop

[edit] and don't say, "Google" that'd make me unhappy

[linuxgod]

google

[mikerowesoft]

A teraflop is a measure of a computer's speed and can be expressed as:
A trillion floating point operations per second
10 to the 12th power floating-point operations per second 2 to the 40th power flops.
Hope that helps.

[AceMilo]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=9051

Before saying ps3 is better than xbox, read that article! Nothing sony showed was ingame, it was all video, everything, including kz2.

[high-as-a-kite]

Originally posted by mikerowesoft
A teraflop is a measure of a computer's speed and can be expressed as:
A trillion floating point operations per second
10 to the 12th power floating-point operations per second 2 to the 40th power flops.
Hope that helps.

thanks man
@linuxgod :)

[mikerowesoft]

You are very welcome. Anytime you have a queston please feel free to ask. Welcome to the max. Hope you have fun.

[linuxgod]

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=322747

read that. it shows that 360 kills ps3 more then i thought.

[mikerowesoft]

Very interesting. I wonder how true to life it will be when they are released. All i know is i want, and will have, both. Thanks for the link, good stuff.

[linuxgod]

ya, im just letting others know. i already put away 2 grand from last weeks paycheque towards my rev-360-ps3 fund.

[high-as-a-kite]

dang... I want 2 grand *mumbles* stupid high school, grr
lol, anyway, I agree about the whole 'buy them all' idea. I mean, the 360's got Halo (among others), the ps3 has FF, and the revolution is really small :D Man, I need a job. I really don't get why people argue about what console is better, I'd rather talk about what's awesome, not what's more awesome, and pretty much all the next-gen consoles look awesome.

[linuxgod]

ya. but 360 has final fantasy also. FF 11. but i see what you mean, each console has its own franchise games.

[Tenny321]

All I have to say is Click HERE (http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/617/617951p1.html)

Xbox 360 performance is better than PS3!

[DeVS]

Hey Tenny welcome to Maxconsole!

[thecheekymonkey]

they will both be good machines i think, but i think this fight will be more about software than the actual platform (console) and in this area, love them or hate them, sony aint got a chance in hell against MS .........

[Jason Voorhees]

but what console will sell more? as of right now. the x360 doesnt appeal to me right now. ill get it when the price is at least half of the original price.