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kevindenoyette
05-16-2005, 03:16 PM
According to official microsoft commercials and wikipedia.com, the xbox has a 1Tflops performance. I myself am not tech-savy enough to calculate to see whether or not it's just vapor, but maybe someone else can do some numbercrunching and see if it's really 1Tflops, because the number surprises me. I never thought ps3 would get 1Tflops, much less xbox 360.
cpiasminc
05-16-2005, 04:43 PM
It's largely been shown to be misleading hype --

Page 4 of this thread (http://www.psinext.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6652&postdays=0&postorder=asc&star t=75) brings up the matter.
Fazares
06-12-2005, 10:08 AM
itsnt that it is misleading...heres a slightly better analysis from my pal at gamespot,check cyander 2nd post....
http://forums.gamespot.com/gamespot/show_messages.php?board=909102863&topic=21190689&p age=0
hope it helps...
cpiasminc
06-13-2005, 04:28 AM
He's right about one thing... I don't give a damn about unusable FLOPs. You have to realize that unusable typically also means unchangeable (at best enable/disable). The other thing is that the majority of these "virtual FLOPs" are not FLOPs at all... They're never done in anything even resembling floating point units -- a lot of the logic may not even be digital in nature.

If you want to count them, count them... but if they're not usable to the developers, they're also meaningless to the graphics you'll see. They're simply things that every GPU has to do in order to perform its job.
Fazares
06-13-2005, 02:28 PM
He's right about one thing... I don't give a damn about unusable FLOPs. You have to realize that unusable typically also means unchangeable (at best enable/disable). The other thing is that the majority of these "virtual FLOPs" are not FLOPs at all... They're never done in anything even resembling floating point units -- a lot of the logic may not even be digital in nature.

If you want to count them, count them... but if they're not usable to the developers, they're also meaningless to the graphics you'll see. They're simply things that every GPU has to do in order to perform its job.
thanks for your reply :D
yes...but we have to count them,nonetheless...