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o0oGedo0o

"ThE liTtlE PhAraOh"
I always wanted to know the answer to 2 questions concerning gaming:

1) Why is my PS/2/3 always have a less processor, less RAM, less graphics cards than the normal PC and still be able to perform a lot better? i don't know if that's the case with the ps3 but you can get yourself a super computer with a quad-core processor and 8 GB RAM with a 8800 GTX and the ps3 will be better.

2) I am used to do renders using 3d studio max, the amount of time i need to render just one frame sometimes passes the hour, how does any game render so much frames per second and still get no framerate issues?

thank you
 
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o0oGedo0o said:
1) Why is my PS/2/3 always have a less processor, less RAM, less graphics cards than the normal PC and still be able to perform a lot better? i don't know if that's the case with the ps3 but you can get yourself a super computer with a quad-core processor and 8 GB RAM with a 8800 GTX and the ps3 will be better.
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One word: Optimization.

Every PS2 has the same components, every PS3 has the same components etc. whereas PC's have hundreds if not thousands of different hardware combinations so people simply can't optimize for every possible combination.
 
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"ThE liTtlE PhAraOh"
Don Sweey said:
One word: Optimization.

Every PS2 has the same components, every PS3 has the same components etc. whereas PC's have hundreds if not thousands of different hardware combinations so people simply can't optimize for every possible combination.
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i think there is more into it than that (optimization), the ps3 has 256 MB RAM, my pc has 4 GB and still won't work as good as the ps3.
 
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It isn't as straightforward as how much RAM. What is the RAM capable of producing?

- Cell Processor
- PowerPC-base Core @ 3.2GHz
- 1 VMX vector unit per core
- 512KB L2 cache
- 7 x SPE @ 3.2GHz
- 7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
- 7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
- 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
- total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS
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- 256MB XDR Main RAM @ 3.2GHz
- 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @ 700MHz
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o0oGedo0o

"ThE liTtlE PhAraOh"
not just RAM, i'm talking processor, video card, people with video cards like the 8800 would still need to update their cards after 2 years or something, while the ps3 would perform steadily after 6 years with better graphics.
 
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Look at my above post. Does that sound like PC RAM to you?

It has to be done this way otherwise they wouldn't sell so many consoles. The PC market could happily move ahead in massive steps but companies won't make as much money if they rush it so they don't. They only need to stay somewhere near the consoles which only get updated every five years or so which is why during the last "generation" the PC hardware market died for a while.
 
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