this shows were the cell come to help the as you guys call it weak gpu the cell is connected to it. now third parties have this tool created by naughty dog and sony other first party engineers. this tool will crunch the numbers for the cell to be use more affient this is proof that ps 3 will be using the cell more aften. third parties have only been using 1 spree from the cell with first year mutiplats.
Richard Lemarchand: It's really cool, though I don't want to make it sound too cheesy. Sony is also doing these great technology outreach efforts, like the Edge tools.
IGN: We're not aware of what they are - educate us.
Richard Lemarchand: Edge tools are distributing for free to all third parties. They were originally developed as first-party tools and were developed in-house at Naughty Dog by a team of super-senior and very experienced games programmers, some of who were Naughty Dog's and some of who were from the Sony family's studios.
Of course, the PlayStation 3 has this really unique system architecture with the Cell processor architecture, which is a GPU surrounded by six SPUs that can do certain kinds of mathematical operations so fast that we consider that we get them pretty much for free. Part of the skill of development for the PlayStation 3 is using the GPU to parcel out jobs to these SPUs in a way that lets you get this terrific throughput of polygons, animation, uncompressing and recompressing things on the fly.
These programmes have been very focused on these SPUs for a long time, and the Edge libraries are all code that run on the SPUs. They're like old school games programmes, they're cycle counters, always shaving another cycle off whatever kind of library operation they're writing. I think it's very far-sighted of Sony to give everyone these tools to build a development community of people who can compare notes with one another to raise the bar across the board for all the PlayStation 3 games.
here is the link nauty dog nows what he is talking about after seeing drake fortune graphics. http://ps3.ign.com/articles/895/895045p2.html
so no the ps 3 gpu has the cell to back it up. the cell is used for gpu functions and here is the proof. i can't wait for uncharted 2 considering naughty dog made this tool.
also this article shows how much better having a huge first party. they comunicate on a dayly basis telling each other what works and what deosn't.
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