PS3’s GPU slightly less powerful than a 7800 GTX?

[Natoksane]

PS3’s GPU slightly less powerful than a 7800 GTX?
By: Jim Birmingham

At E3 it was said the Playstation 3’s powerful GPU would be better than that of two nVidia 6800’s running SLI.

With the launch of nVidia’s flagship next-gen card, the 7800 GTX, just a couple months ago, and the very recent launch of the 7800 GT, nVidia has been quite busy. Now, an interesting bit of news arose from the Official Playstation magazine. An nVidia spokesperson supposedly said “the PS3’s gpu will be slightly less powerful than that of the 7800 PC gpu”.

This means trouble for the PS3; if the PC already has technology matching that of a next-gen console it could affect the PS3’s launch greatly. Usually a console will launch with technology not currently available on the PC and will stay at the top of tech for at least a year, until of course the PC launches the next best thing and quickly strides forward to become the top dog again. While that is the normal thing to happen, it might not be truth this time.

No one has said much about the Xbox 360; using an ATI gpu, and no one knows as of right now if the gpu in the 360 will have the same turnout that is said for the PS3. Whatever the cause, it would appear Microsoft might be able to use this to their advantage and keep hush on technical specs of the gpu in their next-gen console.

[D3TON8R]

Nice find bro..........

:)

[Natoksane]

Why thank you!

[EclipseSix]

Even if the gpu is slightly less powerful, that doesn't mean that much. The architecture is all being created anew for the console, and their mainboard architecture, processor, memory, everything could be designed to run 100times more efficient than a PC mainboard.

Its widely accepted that current computers aren't capable of using the power of today's top technology to their limits, due to bottlenecks in system architecutre and other things which hinder the devices.

If the PS3 is built right, built smart, it may not matter that they'res a little less horsepower under the hood, as long as the system is streamlined.

[Natoksane]

It has now been found out to be UNTRUE. False alarm homies, false alarm.

[KilZo]

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze... got me all worried...

[noobman]

Well that's surprising... considering that it's more powerful than the X360, and that it's supposed to be coming out in 2006 or even 2007!!!

By that time the PC will be far ahead.... Oh well =S

Usually when a console is released it matches or just slightly outperforms the latest PC hardware. If it's less powerful than tech that's a whole year older than it for the PC.... the PC/console graphics gap could be larger than ever!!

[CUatTHEFINISH]

phew... that's good to here.. I <3 the PS3

[malikithekitty]

yeah, i'm looking forward to the PS3 much much more then the xbox 360. Although, don't get me wrong, i'm very excited about both...mmm, next gen goodness.

[riel]

I really enjoy the Sony consoles actually and Im pretty sure the PS3 will be much more powerful then that of a xbox 360, but if it continues to bring its lame issues like disk read errors then Im not buying another console from Sony. I get confused reading a sentence, how could I use a Xbox controller eh?

[CUatTHEFINISH]

Yeah, I also hope that the PS3 will be more durable than the PS2. The PS2 broke real easy. Meanwhile the Xbox is built like a friggin tank.. lol

But in any event I prefer the PS3 over the 360

[Enjieko]

False alarm? Thank goodness!

Had that been true all my PS3 dreams would have been dashed. I love you, Sony.. =;-;=

[noobman]

I'm glad that's cleared up.

[TheTaxidermist]

ps3 is gonna have better specs in the video card area. Sony has half an idea of what they are doing.

[Enjieko]

Half an idea?

HOO-RAH!