How many FLOPS are in game consoles? Options

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How many FLOPS are in game consoles? Posted by XanTium | May 26 21:33 EST | News Category: Xbox_Xbox360

From tgdaily.com: [QUOTE] Recently I was asked how many TFLOPS are in all the game consoles shipped to date. If you count central processor FLOPS then you have one answer and if you count the FLOPS potential of the GPU and add it to the CPU's FLOPS, then you have the second answer. This second version is controversial since the FLOPS of the GPU aren't used in computations and some therefore claim that the GPU should not be counted as it simply represents a theoretical number. Others argue that GPUs are used in computation - the computation of shader operations. Both sides, however, agree that there isn't yet a benchmark that can measure this discipline. And therefore I conclude that we shouldn't use them in evaluating the CPU FLOPS of game consoles. Xbox | CPU: 1.5 GFLOPS | GPU: 5.8 GFLOPS | Combined: 7.3 GFLOPS Xbox360 | CPU: 115 GFLOPS | GPU: 240 GFLOPS | Combined: 355 GFLOPS Dreamcast | CPU: 1.4 GFLOPS | GPU: 0.1 GFLOPS | Combined: 1.5 GFLOPS Wii | CPU: 60 GFLOPS | GPU: 1 GFLOPS | Combined: 61 GFLOPS PS2 | CPU: 6 GFLOPS | GPU: 0 GFLOPS | Combined: 6 GFLOPS PS3 | CPU: 218 GFLOPS | (GPU: 1800 GFLOPS) | (Combined: 2018 GFLOPS) * Update: We have received numerous emails and comments voicing doubt over the floating point capability of the RSX GPU in the PS3. While original specs put the GPU at an official 1.8 TFLOPS spec, this number in fact appears to be inflated. Once we have verified the performance with the manufacturer as well as the developer, we will update this article. [/QUOTE] Full Story: tgdaily.com

[SpaceBuddha]

Who cares about numbers?

I have both. A PS3 and an Xbox 360, and I can tell you one thing and that's a fact, the only game that runs better on the PS3 is Grand Theft Auto IV.

Probably beacause it's rendered in 640p while the Xbox 360-version is 720p. The picture is sharper in the Xbox 360-version but the game runs slightly better on the PS3-version and I know beacause I have them both.

The thing I find most entertaining about Sony's pre-release hype is that they talked so much about 1080p being an advantage for the PS3 and that everything was going to be in full-HD. The problem is that Xbox 360 upscales every game to 1080p in a really nice way and the PS3 can only upscale a game if the game supports it making 80-90% of their games only 720p even when connected to a 1080p HDTV, thus blurrier and making them look like crap on my 1080p Sharp Aquos.

Thank you Sony.

This post has been edited by SpaceBuddha: May 27 2008, 05:03 PM