How powerful was the ps3 when it came out

[SirNumbers]

I was 7 so i dont know, can anyone describe the hype of something thanks

[killers993]

inb4 "Pc master race hur dur dur". 

[Judahnator]

The PS3 was about as powerful when it was released, as the PS3 when the PS4 was released

[Nico123473]

It was so powerful that many people started using them for servers and i also didn't know it was so powerful when it came out i was also very young

[Snickerzz]

It was so powerful that many people started using them for servers and i also didn't know it was so powerful when it came out i was also very young

you could run linux on hit then sony patched it (

[Clyne]

It was advance at the time because of the cell processor and it cost less than a normal blu ray player.

[SirNumbers]

The PS3 was about as powerful when it was released, as the PS3 when the PS4 was released

clever.

[CjlabanG]

Maybe this will give you some idea.

[Guest]

It was rather powerful for the money and put some pretty cool looking games in the living room back, surpassing a vast majority of gaming PCs at they time because they were still rather expensive to get. Not revolutionary in terms of processing power mind you, but it wasn't a laughably weak machines like the new consoles.

[killers993]

you could run linux on hit then sony patched it (

 

They fixed it with the slim model, I think you can still run linux on the phat models. 

[DigitalHermit]

Someone built a supercomputer by sticking a bunch of PS3s together, so... yes it had some potential...

[Aniallation]

I was 7 so i dont know, can anyone describe the hype of something thanks

It was pretty much a P4 + a 7800GTX

[GhostWindGamer]

Someone built a supercomputer by sticking a bunch of PS3s together, so... yes it had some potential...

Yep the U.S military bought 500 ps3's and built a super computer because it was cheaper then buying the parts individually

[ZacDaMan72]

Barnacules has talked about it on the latest WAN show.

[Clyne]

Maybe this will give you some idea.

LOL Xbox 720

[axbu89]

We ll I remember hearing that the 'cell' was based on a power PC so it was probably pretty decent at the time. I'd say it was better relative to gaming PCs at the time than the PS4 is relative to gaming PCs now.

[Humbug]

It was difficult to measure how powerful it was. It was considered very powerful for it's time but difficult to access. Basically a lot of theoretical performance. The media went Totally over the top predicting the end of pc gaming.

[elecxonica]

It was really powerful, BUT it wasn't really able to leverage most of it's power during it's life cycle. It's like the desktop CPUs. In theory an i7 is more powerful, but in most cases it'll run games like an i5 simply because the game can't leverage the extra cores.

[Guest]

It was really powerful, BUT it wasn't really able to leverage most of it's power during it's life cycle. It's like the desktop CPUs. In theory an i7 is more powerful, but in most cases it'll run games like an i5 simply because the game can't leverage the extra cores.

If an 8 year console generation isn't long enough for it to leverage most of its power then I don't know what they were thinking when they designed it.

[toughtrasher]

The PS3 was about as powerful when it was released, as the PS3 when the PS4 was released

Lol.

[7850OC]

I was 7 so i dont know, can anyone describe the hype of something thanks

this days friend   (yes, is not perfect, you get the picture anyway)

 

 

PS3 = R5 230

[ivhyn]

The Cell processor was (and still is) quite a beast in computing tasks but Sony equipped their console with two memory pools and a weak GPU which results in a big performance loss.

[GeathX]

The Cell processor was (and still is) quite a beast in computing tasks but Sony equipped their console with two memory pools and a weak GPU which results in a big performance loss.

 

The split memory is more a trade off between ease of development to performance gain, bandwidth wise at least.. Devs had/have to shuffle around more data between the pools, which the system has all the features to do, but still is a bit of a balancing act. If it was more like a 384/128 or 320/192 split in ram pool sizes, there might have been much greater parity with 3rd party ports.

And the difference in GPU strength could be argued that some of the deficiencies were made up by the Cell, later in its life it allowed for some more advanced forms of AA and compute functions that just wouldn't run on a GPU from that era. PS3 also had some of the better looking games over all,

[7850OC]

here is a great conference (is long) of the many GPUs use in all PlayStation ^-^

[juretrn]

Cell processor was really powerful, but way too complex to properly write code for. The GPU was good, but nothing special.