In the latest issue of the Official PlayStation Magazine nVIDIA is supposedly admitting that its latest PC graphics chip, the GeForce 7800, is more powerful then the RSX GPU to be featured in the PS3. Does this mean that the RSX was basically an off-the-shelf 7800 chipset after all? We find the story hard to believe as it doesn’t make any sense for a spokesperson from nVIDIA to make such a statement. Hopefully Sony will respond soon and set things straight.
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Update
As expected this story didn’t hold water as it now turns out that the whole story erupted when somebody miss read the original article and posted about it on a message board. Several big news sites jumped on the story and all hell broke lose.
NVIDIA has now sent out the right version of the article which reads :
There's no doubting that NVIDIA's new 7800GTX is the ultimate in PC graphics technology. The card's G70 GPU, which is more than twice as powerful as two of NVIDIA's previous top-of-the-line 6800 boards, shares a lot of similar workings with the PS3's RSX chip - only it isn't as fast. Oh, and it retails for $599.
The article actually says the GeForce 7800 GTX is not as fast as the RSX graphics processing unit that NVIDIA developed for the PlayStation 3.
In the latest issue of the Official PlayStation Magazine nVIDIA is supposedly admitting that its latest PC graphics chip, the GeForce 7800, is more powerful then the RSX GPU to be featured in the PS3. Does this mean that the RSX was basically an off-the-shelf 7800 chipset after all? We find the story hard to believe as it doesn’t make any sense for a spokesperson from nVIDIA to make such a statement. Hopefully Sony will respond soon and set things straight.
