The Inquirer: The Xbox 360 can “out fold” the PS3
The Inquirer reports that during an interview with San Jose Mercury News, Microsoft‘s Peter Moore admitted that Microsoft was somewhat left out by Sony‘s PS3 Folding@Home initiative. However, he does take a jab at Sony and says: “IÂ’m not quite sure yet whether weÂ’re seeing real tangible results from the PlayStation 3 Folding@Home initiative.”
What’s interesting about the Inquirer report is that they speculate that the Xbox 360 could possibly beat the PS3 when it comes to folding. Here’s their words:
The Geforce 7900 inside the PS3 is no match for Xenos in the Xbox. Even the Sony Cell would probably end beaten by 48 vec4+scalar units hidden inside Xbox’s 360 graphics chip. Folding@Home is Stream Computing at its finest, and six/seven/eight SPE units can flourish in the CPU. But when compared to the GPU, the Xbox 360 GPU would probably run in circles around Cell CPU.
And then Microsoft’s marketing machine might get interested in touting Folding@Home for the Xbox 360 console, since it would no longer be a race between a snail and a rabbit, as far as protein folding performance is concerned.
Well, we’re pretty sure that a lot of you PSP homebrew-making devs are leagues and leagues more “1337” than us when it comes to technical stuff like this, so what’s you’re take on this? Can the Xbox 360 “out fold” the PS3? Let is know in the comments.
Via The Inquirer
The Inquirer reports that during an interview with San Jose Mercury News, Microsoft‘s Peter Moore admitted that Microsoft was somewhat left out by Sony‘s PS3 Folding@Home initiative. However, he does take a jab at Sony and says: “IÂ’m not quite sure yet whether weÂ’re seeing real tangible results from the PlayStation 3 Folding@Home initiative.”
What’s interesting about the Inquirer report is that they speculate that the Xbox 360 could possibly beat the PS3 when it comes to folding. Here’s their words:
The Geforce 7900 inside the PS3 is no match for Xenos in the Xbox. Even the Sony Cell would probably end beaten by 48 vec4+scalar units hidden inside Xbox’s 360 graphics chip. Folding@Home is Stream Computing at its finest, and six/seven/eight SPE units can flourish in the CPU. But when compared to the GPU, the Xbox 360 GPU would probably run in circles around Cell CPU.
And then Microsoft’s marketing machine might get interested in touting Folding@Home for the Xbox 360 console, since it would no longer be a race between a snail and a rabbit, as far as protein folding performance is concerned.
Well, we’re pretty sure that a lot of you PSP homebrew-making devs are leagues and leagues more “1337” than us when it comes to technical stuff like this, so what’s you’re take on this? Can the Xbox 360 “out fold” the PS3? Let is know in the comments.
Via The Inquirer