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[midnightguy]

yes, that's not a mistake, I said ATI, not Nvidia


http://www.firingsquad.com/features/xbox_360_interview/page6.asp

FiringSquad: Do you know if it supports dual HD displays?

ATI: No it doesn’t. I know the NVIDIA chip does, but that’s only because PC products do. It doesn’t seem to have a real use inside the living room, but maybe you differ with me on that.

FiringSquad: Well, on the Sony console, I think they’re looking at applications that go beyond just a console in the living room don’t you think?

ATI: Yeah I really think it’s just an accident because, well you know, last summer they had to change their plans. They found out that Cell didn’t work as well as they wanted to for graphics. Remember originally you had two or three Cell processors doing everything and then in August last year they had to take an NVIDIA PC chip. And as you know, all PC chips do this, and so it [dual HD display outputs] just came for free.

FiringSquad: What features does Xbox 360 have that really set it apart from what we know so far about RSX and PS3?

ATI: Well, it has a lot. I’ll go through the main features. It has a great anti-aliasing story, it has a powerful shading story, in that we can, well performance but also it has a rich instruction set, giving you great image quality and its flexibility.

It has lots of headroom. This is something that developers will find is easy to program for and rich enough to last for years. It has the performance and feature set to last for years.

We’d like to thank Bob Feldstein for taking the time out to answer our questions about Xbox 360’s graphics. As you can see, ATI’s gone well beyond what we see today in RADEON X850 XT. While Bob didn’t want to project how much more powerful the Xbox 360 VPU is over X850, clearly the chip sports many features that we won’t find in anything on the PC.

I dont know how true that is, but I am going to accept that ATI knows more about their competition, PS3, than I do

 

[dorio]

I thought this was already bought up.

 

[midnightguy]

yeah I see now that it was - but it deserves its own thread, IMO.

Panajev ?

 

[Panajev2001a]

yeah I see now that it was - but it deserves its own thread, IMO.

Panajev ?

We already have a thread for this and ATI is off the mark on this: Sony understood much earlier on that they did not want a GPU based on CELL.

 

[Rorschach]

yeah I see now that it was - but it deserves its own thread, IMO.

Panajev ?

It had its own thread...

 

[Tellaerin]

:lol An ATI rep is the last person I'd take at their word regarding the PS3 hardware now, any more than I'd expect straight dirt on the Xbox 360 development process from a Nvidia rep.

 

[gofreak]

This was already posted and discussed.

And I don't think we should be relying on ATi for clarification on PS3/NVidia/Sony Shall we ask NVidia what they think of ATi products?

 

[Striek]

:lol An ATI rep is the last person I'd take at their word regarding the PS3 hardware now, any more than I'd expect straight dirt on the Xbox 360 development process from a Nvidia rep.

Seriously, its like the guy read B3D and thought their theories sounded plausible enough to tout as fact.