A few days ago a quote from PlayStation Magazine caused a lot of confusion. It said that NVIDIA supposedly had admitted that its latest PC graphics chip, the GeForce 7800, is more powerful then the RSX GPU to be featured in the PS3. 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.
A few days ago a quote from PlayStation Magazine caused a lot of confusion. It said that NVIDIA supposedly had admitted that its latest PC graphics chip, the GeForce 7800, is more powerful then the RSX GPU to be featured in the PS3. 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.
