How powerful is PS3?

MARFY · Post by **MARFY** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:10 am

I would like to more abt PS3.. How powerful is the PS3? what are the features? is it worth to buy PS3 at local reatail prices? any comments from PS3 owners? I am thinkign to buy one but scare later not good. there are many rumors spreading. thanks. Pslinux

avalonakira · Post by **avalonakira** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:10 pm

It is definitely worth it. Sony is actually losing $200 us per each unit. The CPU speed is at 3.2 GHz

avalonakira · Post by **avalonakira** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:53 am

rapso · Post by **rapso** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:54 pm

yeah, theoretical performance, this is not really worth anything, as
1. you cannot use 8SPUs but just 5 or 6, which results in 75% of that peak performance
2. an G80/Geforce8800 has more than twice this SP power (and is easy to program with cuda), but at simplest tasks it's slower.

Those power might just be usefull in special conditions, like raytracing, that's why I made this http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=7665 request. to know the _real_ performance.

Normal programs without any hand-made-optimisations will run slower than on most PCs/Macs that you can buy.

avalonakira · Post by **avalonakira** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:35 am

although, PS3's 256MB of system RAM sux, but I think PS3 is the cheapest way to have a cell processor based computer. Therefore, IT'S WORTH IT!!!

MIT students used PS3 did a raytracer project called "Blue Steel".

Here are the links to it:

http://cag.csail.mit.edu/ps3/blue-steel.shtml

http://cag.csail.mit.edu/ps3/projects/6 ... -steel.pdf

http://cag.csail.mit.edu/ps3/competition.shtml

forums.ps2dev.org

How powerful is PS3?

How powerful is PS3?

It is worth it!

Here is a performance chart