Nothing, nothing...I was just dreaming
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Just suppose, like all people here suppose, we have a system with 2 PEs, one for the CPU and one for the GPU.
In my mind the GPU is absolutelly free from T&L load. It just does pixel operations.
Anyways we are talking about 256-256 GFLOPS from each part.
XBOX on the other hand will feature a 80 GFLOP CPU and an ATI GPU. This ATI pirece should deliver 432 GFLOP in order to equal PS3 figures. 423 GFLOP...not NVFLOPS or ATIFLOPS or OURUFLOPS... Highly unlikely.
Then again why Sony should bother so much about PS3 when they could be on par with XB2 with just one PE and a silly GPU (just a rasterizer with a couple of functions like the GS) ? Here is where the equation fails... I have no answer.