[QUOTE="CLuget"]I wouldn't use this software to claim some sort of performance advantage the PS3 has over the XBox 360. Folding@home also has an ATI x1900 GPU enhanced version of the software which uses that GPU's streaming processors to increase speed 20-30 fold, which is comparable to the speed increase in the Cell (another streaming processor) version of the software. And as most know, the 360 uses an ATI R600 class GPU, which is a generation ahead of the X1900 GPU's.
http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-ATI.html
Frunku
Why are you comparing GPUs? The Cell is a CPU. GPUs today are monsterific and dwarf CPUs in sheer math power.
Because graphics performance in games is not dependent on CPU alone, and is dependent more on GPU, which you've basically just admitted to yourself in the above statement. In any case, while the Cell may have the better CPU, the 360 has the better GPU. From the folding @home GPU faq, here's what they have to say about the ATI and Nvidia GPU's "What about video cards with other (non-ATI) chipsets? The R580 (in the X1900XT, etc.) performs particularly well for molecular dynamics, due to its 48 pixel shaders. Currently, other cards (such as those from nVidia and other ATI cards) do not perform well enough for our calculations as they have fewer pixel shaders. Also, nVidia cards in general have some technical limitations beyond the number of pixel shaders which makes them perform poorly in our calculations. "
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