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Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: Paul2 on November 08, 2005, 11:29:47 PM
I read that PS3 can do 256 GFLOPs (billion of floating points per sec), 1.8 TFLOPs (trillion of floating points per sec), and even 2 TFLOPs.

So, which is it?

How many is that compare to PS2 which I believe PS2 does only 6.2 GFLOPs...
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: Avatarr on November 09, 2005, 03:51:43 AM
how many floating points? toss it in a pool and see how much of it stays above water. ^_^ if you\'re saying "how many floating points", chances are you don\'t know enough for it to have any  meaning to you. don\'t worry about it.
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: Knotter8 on November 09, 2005, 04:58:56 AM
So many tech questions....which none of them give really usefull insight.

I wanna know things like ;

- vertex fillrate to gauge how many polygons and curved surfaces it\'ll do within a realtime game engine.

- how many lightsources it can use ingame and what shadowtechniques can be used.

- what programmed/scripted shaders and deformers can be used ingame.

raw numbers say very little...
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: Jumpman on November 09, 2005, 05:22:45 AM
im going to say...67
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: Blade on November 09, 2005, 05:52:20 AM
Paul: You might be getting confused because PS3 uses a scaling architecture.

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.watch.impress.co.jp%2Fgame%2Fdocs%2F20050519%2Fps3_r02.jpg&hash=43a61a97424a2ec997b56e3dc990f6f02137dd39)

There\'s your answer. The PS3 itself will top out at 2TFLOPS total (RSX + 1 Cell) but Cell workstations and processing farms may contain upwards of 100-1000 Cells. I\'d suspect that future supercomputers may take advantage.
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: GmanJoe on November 09, 2005, 06:21:38 AM
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Originally posted by Blade

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.watch.impress.co.jp%2Fgame%2Fdocs%2F20050519%2Fps3_r02.jpg&hash=43a61a97424a2ec997b56e3dc990f6f02137dd39)

 


Is that a salami hanging above that graphic?
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: Knotter8 on November 09, 2005, 06:36:15 AM
Yeah, better eat it up quickly before some dude pops it into....
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: fastson on November 09, 2005, 12:02:29 PM
They should have had a PS3 in the Titanic.
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: Knotter8 on November 09, 2005, 12:06:43 PM
The movie ? :rolleyes:
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: Evi on November 09, 2005, 01:38:34 PM
The read that the CELL chip can do around 256 GFLOPS...everything else seems like inflated bullsh^t.
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: THX on November 09, 2005, 02:03:31 PM
Yea but the PS3 is backwards compatible with PS2 and PS1 so if you add all that up it\'s 2TFlops
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: GmanJoe on November 09, 2005, 02:07:03 PM
2TFlops sounds like titty flops. I think the PS3 needs a good bra.
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: Paul2 on November 09, 2005, 09:47:10 PM
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Originally posted by Avatarr
how many floating points? toss it in a pool and see how much of it stays above water. ^_^

LOL.
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: Unicron! on November 10, 2005, 05:23:09 AM
FLOPS=floating operations if I am not mistaken?
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: Blade on November 10, 2005, 05:28:15 AM
FLoating Point Operations Per Second.

(I knew that. Remind me not to post directly after I get up.)
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: Paul2 on November 10, 2005, 08:47:35 AM
I believe the actual words for FLOPs are floating-point Operation Per Second.  I didn\'t know there is a word "operation", but there actually is a word "point" in there.  I guess its more memorable to inital the words as FLOPs instead as FLPOPs.  I guess that\'s why the initial for "p" is omitted.
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: Evi on November 10, 2005, 02:10:36 PM
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I believe the actual words for FLOPs are floating-point Operation Per Second.
Blade just said that.
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: Samwise on November 10, 2005, 02:39:25 PM
I think it stands for floating point operations per second.
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: Paul2 on November 10, 2005, 03:25:59 PM
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Originally posted by EviscerationX
Blade just said that.

Oh, I am sorry Evis.  I didn\'t notice Blade said that.  I checked Blade\'s post and on the bottom, it said "Last edited by Blade on 11-10-2005 at 12:29 PM" which is about over 3 hours after i said that when he edited it.
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: fastson on November 10, 2005, 03:32:32 PM
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Originally posted by Knotter8
The movie ? :rolleyes:


No the real deal. Sorry, a lame attempt of trying to leech of Avatarrs joke. :D

Hmm now when you mention it, but the PS3 might have improved the CG in the movie. ;)
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: Evi on November 10, 2005, 06:49:05 PM
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I think it stands for floating point operations per second.
:rofl:
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: Knotter8 on November 11, 2005, 03:52:12 AM
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Originally posted by fastson
No the real deal. Sorry, a lame attempt of trying to leech of Avatarrs joke. :D
 


Well, what\'s with these lame jokes lately btw ?

I spotted this trend here earlier in other threads. Quite lame imo.
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: fastson on November 11, 2005, 04:18:57 AM
Sorry .. wont happen again :(
Title: Seriously, How many Floating points does PS3 really have?
Post by: Knotter8 on November 11, 2005, 05:04:06 AM
Well, i don\'t perceive it as SOOO problematic..

But i have a feeling some of you guys talk on AIM or msn or whatever, decide on a joke and then each of you consecutively post a part or a few words from the joke in a thread.

If THAT\'s supposed to be the new kind of \'adult humor\' ; sorry, but it looks really teenage.

... or i\'m uber supersuspicious...