PS3 hardware slow and broken

[Dacalo]

I was looking forward to PS3, but some bad press.

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For local memory, the measured vs theoretical bandwidth is missing, I wonder why? RSX is at a solid 22.4GBps for both read and write, good job there green team. Then comes the blue team with Cell. Local memory write is about 4GBps, 40% of the next slowest bandwidth there. Then comes the bomb from hell, the Cell local memory read bandwidth is a stunning 16MBps, note that is a capital M to connote Mega vs a capital G to connote Giga. This is a three order of magnitude oopsie, and it is an oopsie, as Sony put it "(no, this isn't a typo...)".

 

[Queasy]

A) Rumor from "The Inquirer"
B) Slashdot pretty much debunked this from what I understand

 

[SuperFreaky]

This is obviously crap... I was hoping nobody here would stoop to posting...

 

[BDawg]

Originally posted by: Queasy
A) Rumor from "The Inquirer"
B) Slashdot pretty much debunked this from what I understand

FTW

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: SuperFreaky
This is obviously crap... I was hoping nobody here would stoop to posting...

comon you been here long enough to know better. crap happens whenever a new system is released.

 

[MisterJackson]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: SuperFreaky
This is obviously crap... I was hoping nobody here would stoop to posting...

comon you been here long enough to know better. crap happens whenever a new system is released.

Hey, cut him some slack. you didn't know that not all men know all women are evil! 😛

 

[darkswordsman17]

Ah, more FUD from the anti-Sony fanboys I'm guessing.

We get what 2-3 of those per week now don't we?

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
Ah, more FUD from the anti-Sony fanboys I'm guessing.

We get what 2-3 of those per week now don't we?

The most die-hard, foaming-at-the-mouth, I-swear-complete-loyalty-unto-death sports fanatics are rank amateurs compared to the fanboys of gaming consoles.

 

[Jadow]

can someone decpher than adolescent fanboy shlt and explain what they're talking about?

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Not anti-Sony fanboys, just completely out of their realm of competencies. From what the /.ers are saying it's some sort of local texture cache for the RSX. There's basically no reason you'd want to access it with the CPU anyway, but if for some odd reason you do need to share something that would usually go in this cache between the RSX and the CPU, slap it in main memory.

The author of the article obviously misconstrued the figure as being relevant to overall performance.

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: Jadow
can someone decpher than adolescent fanboy shlt and explain what they're talking about?

The read speed is much slower than the write speed.....

Without knowing how the archituecture actually works, however, you really cannot comment on it. I guess the fan boys were bored and needed something to talk about.

 

[secretanchitman]

its the inq so i dont really believe this.

and yes, quesay is right. slashdot proved them wrong a while back.

though it could be true...and that would be bad!