Mac Pro with 8800 GT vs PS3

[JackAxe]

The Xeon hands down for pretty much everything. Any task that that a Cell would excel at over the Xeon, would still be better suited for the system's GPU, which in most cases would decimate a Cell.

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[student_trap]

but surely talking about figures themselves is useless, as in the real world, the mac pro is not optimised for games, while the cell is etc

can anyone tell me then, if the mac pro could pump out graphics equal to or better than uncharted on the ps3, and if so, which games would demonstrate this?

 

[Chone]

but surely talking about figures themselves is useless, as in the real world, the mac pro is not optimised for games, while the cell is etc

can anyone tell me then, if the mac pro could pump out graphics equal to or better than uncharted on the ps3, and if so, which games would demonstrate this?

That's a pretty dumb statement (your first one), if anything, developers are more used to working in x86 (Mac Pro) and PPC (Xbox360, Wii) architectures than this complicated Cell mess... the cell is not particular optimized for games either, it's just a processor with a different, modular, architecture. Also remember nowadays GPUs are lagging behind processors and games are mostly GPU-bound, and the RSX in the PS3 doesn't even begin to compare to what a PC could have.

The only argument here is that the PS3 does have potential for physics processing but even that argument fails considering the PC has multi-core processors, dedicated physics hardware and ever-advancing progress on the GPU-accelerated physics market.

Look no further than Crysis, end of story. Crysis makes the Unreal Engine 3 and Uncharted look last gen.

Consoles are great, no argument there, but they will NEVER ever beat PCs on the technical side of things, it's just unconceivable, PCs are constantly evolving, consoles are the same for 4-5 years and even at launch they are limited.