ATI talk about the XBox vs PS3

[FarFarAway]

And come up with some pretty interesting stuff.

PS3's GPU will be clocked higher but not faster. Well they would say that but ATI look to be on the right track as far as architecture with the Unified pipelines.

Here's a quoick quote from the interview:

Nvidia have previously stated in public that they do not believe that unified shader architectures are the way forward. Windows Graphics Foundation 2, the version of DirectX that will ship with Longhorn, will be designed around the idea that the graphics card will have unified vertex and pixel pipelines, but will not require that to be the case. Given that ATI is working with Microsoft now on unified parts on next-gen DirectX, whilst Nvidia is saying that it doesn’t think this is the best idea, does Richard think that Nvidia will suffer, in the long run, on the PC platform from not following Microsoft?

“I’d love to say yes… I’d love to say that Nvidia are going to be stuck when it comes to Longhorn. But actually I do think they will have a unified shader architecture by the time WGF2 comes around. This time around, they don’t have the architecture and we do, so they have to knock it and say it isn’t worthwhile. But in the future, they’ll market themselves out of this corner, claiming that they’ve cracked how to do it best. But RSX isn’t unified, and this is why I think PS3 will almost certainly be slower and less powerful.

“Talking to the guys at Microsoft, it’s impossible to escape the conclusion that the future is for unified pipelines, there’s no doubt.”

Of course, the great news for ATI is that they’ll be on the second revision of their unified architecture by then, just as Nvidia is getting started.

Soo looking good for ATI at the moment. Like I've said if ATI can sort out production issues, they wwill be on top of nvidia till the gen following the next

Whoops. Full article at Bit-Tech

 

[NickS]

Yeah really. They have to up their manufacturing. Their company is growing along with the demand yet it seems their supply is diminishing. Sad but true.