people will disagree with you because people won't let go of the fact that ps3's are no longer (for awhile now) the end all be all for folding power. Technology advances FAST people. The sooner you understand that the less butt hurt some people will be.

bu bu but teh ps3 is teh best.

The Cell processor alone is 5x faster than a 8800 GTX at raytracing. That article came out about a year ago here on N4G.

http://www.n4g.com/tech/New...

PS3 = Cell + RSX + XDR RAM

Do you guys at least have links to back up your claims?

(1) GTX 295 >>>> 8800 GTX

(23) GTX 295..

"(1) GTX 295 >>>> 8800 GTX "

By exactly how much? Nvidia hasn't done many upgrades to its GPUs. The difference between the 9800 and the 8800 was very little in terms of horse power, it basically added physics functionality and little else. The GTX 295 is just a beefed up 9800, i.e. for computationally heavy tasks that aren't rasterising related like raytracing, it still pales in comparison against the cell processor.

Also, the Cell was out 3 years before and is a lot cheaper.

To give you an idea, a GTX 285 outperforms the 8800GTX by two fold in gaming. The 295 has 480 processing cores compared to 128 the 8800 GTX had, along with 4x the memory. I believe it produces speeds nearly that of 2 teraflops with single dual GPU card. Now by comparison the PS3 is about 1 teraflop @ $400, while the 295 is nearly 2 @ about $600. It's much more price effective at that range.

@ ZuperAmazingCooKie since when has ray tracing had anything to do with folding ? Just because the PS3 beats a GPU at ray tracing doesn't mean it beats it at EVERYTHING. If you want proof check this link out :-

http://www.nordichardware.c...

The GTX280 is roughly FIVE times faster at folding than the PS3 so it isn't hard to imagine the newer GTX295 is even faster than that.

The reason I mentioned raytracing is because it's a computationally heavy task that costs a lot more processing time on a GPU than on a cell processor. That's why I thought it would be analogous to Folding. But now that you've provided a link to prove that GPUs are more than capable for Folding, I admit defeat.

So why doesn't Folding @ Home use the RSX in combination with the PS3?