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I never said you can't take better advantage of hardware. I said that the RSX won't ever be faster than the 79xx series
You have got to be kidding me.
You could've just googled it yourself, but okie, whatever, I'll humor you.
indeed
But consoles imo bring the most fun out of the games. JK hehe) it was far more immersive (which is why the Wii gets away with inferior graphics- graphics are a way of immersing a player in the game's world, and the Wiimote, when properly utilized, can do a far better job of that than many other peripherals in a wide range of games). However, my G9 allows me to perform a little better, but like I said, the Wiimote basically falls somewhere between a basic k/m set-up and the G9 in HL2 (just got this set-up a week ago so I haven't had a great deal of time to test it in much else other than TrackMania and such).), from Bioshock to Gears of War to Guitar Hero 3 to Stranglehold (particularly when you can find the latter for only $12- that's a game I'll be interested in getting the Wiimote working with, as will be Jedi Academy), usually hit the PC- if not initially then at some point (like GoW, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, Burnout: Paradise, etc...) and I generally tend to enjoy them more on my PC because my upgrade path has typically kept my PC ahead of the consoles in terms of what it can do when it needs to be (remember when everyone was complaining initially about the 360's rather lacking library? I upgraded my PC a little before Gears of War came out, just in time for the big rush of holiday titles on the PC that year) and because of the greater freedom I have with my choice of controls (people claim that Gears of War is better with the 360 gamepad- I beg to differ). Granted, sticking with one platform means missing the occasional gem as MGS 4 may prove to be, but when it comes to the 360/PS3 I always come back to that I'd be paying $300+ each just to play a few games- each of which cost $60 instead of $50 (or $40 like SoaSE or $0 like Battlefield: Heroes but we'll see how that goes)- which is distressing considering that I have plenty of awesome games to play already and already lack the time to properly devote to all of them (and, hell, like I said, I also have a Wii, which really does an excellent job of providing a very different set of high caliber games than my PC does or a 360 or PS3 would- Zelda: Twilight Princess, Resident Evil 4 Wii- sure, you can get RE4 on just about any console these days 'cept the 40GB PS3's w/out backward compat, but I've played RE4 on other consoles and feel that the Wii controls really do make a significant, immersive difference and really add to the game- Metroid Prime 3, Mario Galaxy, and Smash Bros Brawl).
That question has more or less be answered several pages ago. A 7950GT is mostly equal (better in a few areas) to the RSX (which is a G71). So anything 7950GT or better. However, the PS3 fanboys and kool aid drinkers will try and say that the Cell CPU somehow makes the GPU better, so lets say a 3850/9600GT will safely be better than anything a PS3 can dish out
I read somewhere that XDR doesn't exactly need a huge bus bandwidth because if its speed, but who knows, I'm not an expert on these things. Besides, it's only a little less than half the bandwidth of the GDDR3, I'm sure the speed of the XDR ram would somewhat compensate for it.That is a pretty small bus there - bandwidth can't be all that great, which would be a major bottleneck...
We'll see. Kind of like how Halo 3 was supposed to run at 720p.
You wouldn't need a ton of memory bandwidth or ROPs to generate a lightmap in a shader program, especially since we are talking about a very small scene here with minimal to no movement with a small number of models. A scenario like that a decent programmer could optimize the crap out of.
Could you back up your claim? I'd like to see a link where it specifically claims Gran Turismo 5 RETAIL runs "upscaled" resolutions.
(already disappointed with console-based racers- booted-up the GRID demo and was saddened to note that TrackMania Nations Forever definitely had the graphical edge- at least GRID ran better, but that was to be expected; and the PC version of GRID has some additional graphical tweaks/upgrades compared to the console versions too...).Imo, 360/PS3 games run at 720p upscaled to 1080p at best until proven otherwise. So the burden of proof falls on the person claiming native 1080p support. Furthermore, if it does support 1080p, you might want to take a closer look at GT 5
). But, as kllrnohj has pointed-out, the only article linked to in this thread that has anything of substance on what GT5 Prologue currently, actually, natively runs at indicates it runs at 1280x1080 and upscales to 1920x1080 (but, I suppose that IS 1080p from a certain point of view since it IS 1080 pixels of vertical resolution- but damn, that's gotta be some bad horizontal stretching).I don't remember having seen any links to any of those articles in this thread... just articles that said it would support 1080p (whatever that means- as far as MS and Sony are concerned, "support for 1080p" and "upscaling to 1080p" are two ways of saying the same thing
