The 5970 is two separate RV870s on the same card that are linked through Crossfire. My guess is that the 6870 will be two RV870s merged on the same die, meaning Crossfire will not be required and performance will scale better as a result.
In a year it'll be "Come on, it's only $10 more dollars a year. That's the equivalent of $0.03 more a day!"
This card will probably be equivalent to two Radeon 5870s. My guess is it will actually be two RV870s on the same die.
I guess I'll never be buying Xbox Live Gold again. I was already annoyed with $50 a year.
I'd bet on it being 1024x600 again, as it was in Call of Duty 4, World at War, and Modern Warfare 2. (Call of Duty 3 was actually 1040x624)
Because there are so many inadequacies in their hardware descriptions? The PS3's CPU is not "7 single-threaded cores (plus 1 backup core)". It is a single dual threaded core(PPU) with 7 programmable vector processors(SPEs) that can be given tasks by the main core.
When talking about the eDRAM on the 360 they say: "However, the Xbox has the advantage of 10 MB of eDRAM. When relying on the eDRAM, system bandwidth jumps up to 256 GBps." The system bandwi...
Oh god please don't tell me someone is seriously referencing IGN's hardware comparison.
You mean the same reviewers that scored Modern Warfare 2 higher than every PS3 exclusive released aside from Uncharted 2 and Little Big Planet? This is proof enough that reviewers should not always be taken seriously.
The fact is the PC is superior when it comes to multi-platforms. I love my PS3 for the exclusives like Uncharted 2 and Little Big Planet. The exclusives alone are more than enough to make the platform worthwhile in my eyes.
I doubt it, as this is the PC version we're looking at.
I don't know if it's possible for flash memory to become cheaper to manufacture than optical discs.
Currently a 50GB Blu-ray costs what, $0.05-0.10 to make? The cheapest 32GB flash memory cards cost more than $60 currently. Even once 64GB cards become cheap to manufacture, we'll have HVD or some other form of optical media that holds more at a lower price.
I like the idea of having cartridges especially with no load times, but I'm afraid it i...
The Amiga 1200 with the Motorola 68060 was my personal favorite from Commodore, although obviously it was released much later.
The 3DS only renders at 400x240.
The 3DS only renders at 400x240, so the 360 would easily demolish it in 3D performance.
The PowerVR SGX540 used in the new Samsung Galaxy phones should be faster than the GPU in the 3DS based on the specs we've been given so far.
I'm sure there will be a $5-10 clone within a month. I mean, the device itself is actually extremely simple and shouldn't cost much to manufacture.
A 3DTV shouldn't really use any more power than a standard 2D set, as it's simply outputting at a higher refresh rate. I don't know where you've heard this, but it's definitely untrue.
The eDRAM is simply an embedded chip on the 360's GPU that is 10MB of RAM on an extremely wide memory bus (likely 2560-bits wide or larger). The 360's main memory is simply 700MHz DDR3, similar to the 256MB of DDR3 the RSX uses.
Pretty impressive, especially considering Starcraft 2 is an RTS. I still need to try the 3rd person zombie level.
I really don't understand how MGS2 was a worse idea than the Virtual Boy.
I really enjoyed this game a lot, but I haven't played the DLC yet. I downloaded it a month ago, but I've been busy and I don't use my 360 that often.
If this game had actually been 720p with 4xAA like fanboys were claiming pre-release, it probably would have been the best looking game out. I'm still hoping they release it for the PC so I can see it on some higher settings!
Native 720p is 1280x720.