to my understanding, it was very powerful under *extremely specific* conditions, but most of those weren't even relevant to video games anyway. most of the people glazing it also ignore how the nVIDIA GPU was basically a bolted-on afterthought becasue Sony was rushing to get the thing out the door. i swear if i see one more zoomzoom with a "fruitnigger aero" channel talking about how amazing it was i'll blow a gasket
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>Mr. Reese, it appears some retard on /g/ isn't aware of the boundless capabilities of RISC architecture
>>108534212ask them, we're not telepaths
>>108534212They dont.We have this thread maybe once a year.
>>108534212>most of those weren't even relevant to video games anyway.Military use, which they did use it for.
What post did OP mean to reply to? Who is talking about this?
it was one of the most criticized architectures of its time with the itanium, the fuck you are talking about.
>>108534694It's just an opinion masked as a question. Ignore.
>>108535409This.I remember hearing both sides of the argument though, OPs and yours.It was powerful on paper, but a huge pain in the ass to actually work on for the devs.
>>108534212Wasn't it just an alternative implementation of SIMD?
Pentium 4 tier pipelined CPU with memey unusable coprocessors. It's bad. Xbox at least didn't shit up their Pentium tier disaster with useless shit.
A G80 would have been better.
>>108534212It's full power still hasn't been unlocked yet because devs don't fully understand it. Once they do it will be capable of ray tracing 120fps native 8k
>>108534882>We have this thread maybe once a year.More like once a month.
the ps3 had no games so we'll never know if it was powerful or not
>>108536219>the ps3 had no games so we'll never know if it was powerful or notYou know you can run other software on the PS3, right?
>>108534212Totally fucking obsoleted by GPU compute. Direct access to as many GPU cores as you want, without going through a CPU bottle neck for the SPEs attached to that specific CPU.
>>108536382You know you can suck things other than cocks, right?
>>108534212>i swear if i see one more zoomzoom with a "fruitnigger aero" channel talking about how amazing it was i'll blow a gasketWhen will the 90s/Y2K appropriation end?
at this rate by 2040 they'll be fetishizing dei-core and corporate slop
>>108534663Mr Reese is too busy filming 2Passion2Christ
>>108536425You'd like that.
>>108534212Alright but what does the fruitigger aero thing have to do with anything?
>>108534663RISC doesn't hold any meaning anymore, if it ever did.
>>108536188Ok
>>108534212...What?I remember that game developers back then found the PS3 unnecessarily complex to develop for. Gaben famously called it a waste of time.
>>108538427Gaben found that developing games was a waste of time.
>>108534212Because it was ahead of it's time and it wasn't utilized for most of it's development cycle, only at the end we saw games that kind of showed it's potential
>>108534212I mean some of the first party stuff was pretty impressive for the time, because they had access to the secret sauce docs and knew how to leverage the hardware, but it wasn't a magical unicorn chip. The same could be said for the 360 really.
>>108534212Didn't the US Air Force connect like 10 PS3s together to run their jet fighter simulators? Because of the cell processor...
>>108539003https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster>1,760
>>108539064>In mid-2007, Gaurav Khanna, a professor in the Physics Department of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth independently built a message-passing based cluster using eight PS3s running Fedora Linux, named the PS3 Gravity Grid. It was built with support from Sony Computer Entertainment as the first PS3 cluster with published scientific results. It performed astrophysical simulations of large supermassive black holes capturing smaller compact objects.Only 8 to simulate the known universe.
>>108534663great show
>>108534212Stupid people mistake complexity for genius. That's it.
>>108536468>When will the 90s/Y2K appropriation end?Never, it's the printing press of the current era until a new major turning point happens again in the human history.
>>108534212If you claim something is powerful but nobody is actually able to use it's power then it's actually not powerful. I think this is the only sane way to look at the world.
>>108542281People could use it, though.
>>108536512what would this art style be called?
>>108543980Globohomo.https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Corporate_Memphis
>>108543980TrannyCore
>>108539003The PS3 was cheap Linux computer (yes even for the price of FIVE HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE US DOLLARS) and had 3.5 GHz CPU with extra 8 "cores", back in an age where most computers were single core and single thread and GPGPU software was still tech demos written by exploiting HLSL maths.The CELL was a good number cruncher for the time.Nowadays, your chinkphone might be faster than it.
>>108534212it was obsoleted by Nvidia the month it released but gamers are retards who treat that kind of thing like football
>why do retards suck off the CELL so much?Sonyfags fell for the marketing time and time again. PS2 was massively under powered too.
>>108536468Millenials weren't even born when Windows 7 came out.
>>108544932lol
