Odd, I've yet to see any programmer say it's easier. They all avoid the question if they're working with it, or if they're not they tell you it's a pain in the ass and they're avoiding it...
JoeSp said:I have plenty of experiance with both ATI chip sets and NVIDEA chip sets over the last 10 years.
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ATI chips use more power, create more heat with fewer transistors then comparable performing NVIDEA chips.
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ATI used to be the top dog around 1998 but since then have been looking up the backside of NVIDEA 's new product lines every year.
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ATI's cards use more power and create more heat while NVIDEA seems to jack up the ante without the crazy power requirements or the overheating problems.
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Real world use would say that the NV7800 chip that came out almost a year after the ATI chip in the XBOX360. Common sense says that if ATI has been lagging behind NVidea since 1998 how in the world did they jump two generations ahead (given in the graphics world a new generation is launched every 6 to 9 months)?
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While the XBOX360 is a great console with very nice graphics there is no way in any aspect hardwarewise that the XBOX360 is the equal of the PS3.
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More memory on the board - less in the CPU (3x512 does not equal 7 times 256).
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Just as I had to admit that the XBOX had better graphics then the PS2 -- why -- because it came out a year later with newer chipsets and a hard drive, why can not you XBOX360 fanboys see the writing on the wall.
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In about a year when the PS3 2 gen titles are showing considerably better graphics then the XBOX360 3rd gen titles will be showing I hope someone remembers this small statement.
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In electronics - being first just means being first -- not the best - not the worst- just first.
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JoeSp said:Not so for the PS3. The PS3 will use machine language. The language of super computers. Learning all the nuances of the CELL chip might take awhile but programming will be alot simpler then the PS2 was. Also incorporating the Nvidea RSX chipset will make it alot easier on the graphics programmer - definately more so then the custom graphics chip set the PS2 used. This might explain why there are going to be alot of new titles coming out on the PC that have also been anounced for the PS3. Crysis will be coming for the PS3 and that is one title I am really jonesing for!!
JoeSp said:No programmer has yet said that the PS3 was a pain in the ass to program.
In fact the WARHAWK programers said that it only took 3 days to incorporate the new controller inputs into their software. I do not see that as being difficult! And prey tell why almost a third of all the new PC titles coming out over the next year have already announced their title for the PS3? And Cysis is going to be on the PS3!
The reason that they are avoiding the question is that first they must hire machine language programers then they must learn how to use a 7 core CPU. They are just now learning how to use a two core CPU. Something new takes time and will eventually be worth it. Both systems will survive and do well. I just believe the PS3 is more advanced.
First, I am a very technical person
and the bottom line is no ATI card designed for the same level of graphics has ever run cooler than an NVidea card.
Hey, I have a spare Intellivision 2 system lying around here somewhere.Purogamer said:Let's all buy gameboys and forget all this high tech nonsense...
Who's with me!?!?