Leadtek to launch PS3 graphics chip for PCs

Falconm80 said on Wednesday, 12 November 2008

Not impressive!!!!

Only 128MB of XDR memory.. I don't know how much better the XDR memory compared to DDR3 or the equivalent found in Nvidia and ATI graphic cards. But it seems that this VGA card will only be good for running HD video, not intensive 3D applications..

No wonder PS3 is suffering from this kind of poor technology, I knew it was the graphics card that was holding the PS3 back and some PS3 games need the help of the cell processors to support their graphics.

For 199 pounds = $300 USD, you get plenty of good choices from Nvidia 9800 GX2 with 1GB of DDR3 to ATI Radeon HD 4870 with 1GB of GDDR5

adrian said on Wednesday, 12 November 2008

what the...............
falconm80 do you even know what your talking about. the chip in this new card is based upon the cellbe chip that is the main cpu of the ps3 not its graphics chip. yes it will be used for display of hd signals but if the sheer maths computing power demonstrated by the cell chip is anything to go by then transcoding of video source into other formats should be a breeze for it even when cut down to only 4 spe cores. and as for it being a vga card, what rock have you been under for the last ten years, we all moved away from vga resolution years ago (well maybe not all of us but i didnt think it was right to put down the wii as its fun)

Sy said on Wednesday, 12 November 2008

Well It's about time. I thought the cell's tech would be stuck in the PS3 and that one ridiculously expensive TV forever.

Falconm80 said on Wednesday, 12 November 2008

I ment by VGA the display unit not the 640x480 resolution.....

and still i think this graphic card will be an expensive low end graphics card... the article didn't mention anything about running 3D graphics, only HD video and some video editing or whatever were mentioned. that's something a built in graphics card can handle nowdays.

aussiebear said on Wednesday, 12 November 2008

Its clear that Falconm80 doesn't really understand, and is making too many assumptions with his own bias into the mix.

(1) This is NOT a 3D card. Its an accelerator for high definition video content.

(2) It should be extremely useful for multi-stream HD applications. That's what the Cell processor is really good at.

(3) The 3D accelerator in the PS3 is the Nvidia RSX chip. Its based on the Geforce 7800.

hsu said on Friday, 14 November 2008

gddr3 on big name gpus is based on ddr2 not ddr3, xdr delivers more bandwidth with less pins and runs on lower voltage 1.8v
the spurengine will be a slightly expensive low end gpu but with only 20 - 30w consumption
it will playback HD material more efficiently than other low end cards HD4670 (~70w consumption)

imo its like buying an electric car, probably not worth it but better for the environment

wiiboy101 said on Friday, 28 November 2008

its a kinda go nowere chip not unlike ppus its a great boost to lappy/pc power if used currectly hacking it into a gaming co-processor would be easy or even develop a gamecentric version that boosts gpu and physics for gaming rigs...

one of these inside a pc is more impressive to me than cell cpu its self...
wii HD could use a gaming variant of this along side a broadway 2 cpu both at 1.5ghz or higher and sharing a chunk of ibm custom edram as high bandwidth catch memory presto gaming power and HD POWER