Sunday, March 25th 2007
PlayStation 3 dominates Folding at Home charts
Along with the release of PlayStation 3 in Europe, gamers in Japan and North America updated their Sony monoliths to system software version 1.60. Along with the much needed background downloading, the update brings to the PS3 the ability to help find a cure for cancer with its Folding@home client.
According to the most recent Folding@home client statistics sorted by operating system, the PlayStation 3 leads all other platforms by a huge margin. The PS3 has 367 current TFLOPS, while the next closest is Windows with 151 TFLOPS and more than ten times more CPUs.
When it comes to pure performance though, the PS3's Cell Broadband Processor is still no match for ATI GPUs for protein folding. The GPUs on Folding@home sit at 41 current TFLOPS, which come from only 700 processors. If there were as many GPUs folding as there are PS3s on the network, it can be extrapolated that GPUs could reach 876 TFLOPS.
Below are the current stats:
Source:
DailyTech
According to the most recent Folding@home client statistics sorted by operating system, the PlayStation 3 leads all other platforms by a huge margin. The PS3 has 367 current TFLOPS, while the next closest is Windows with 151 TFLOPS and more than ten times more CPUs.
When it comes to pure performance though, the PS3's Cell Broadband Processor is still no match for ATI GPUs for protein folding. The GPUs on Folding@home sit at 41 current TFLOPS, which come from only 700 processors. If there were as many GPUs folding as there are PS3s on the network, it can be extrapolated that GPUs could reach 876 TFLOPS.
Below are the current stats:
34 Comments on PlayStation 3 dominates Folding at Home charts
However, I don't recommend you run it if you have less than 512MB of video RAM. It really makes the machine pretty much useless.
But once again, the PS3 is a single purpose machine. Also, many hardcore gamers could never game on a console.
Just me thinking about playing an FPS or RTS competitively on a console is scary.
I think the sales numbers clearly show the PS3 is not a good console for the money it costs.
It is being beaten by both the xbox360, and the wii.
PS3 is trying to fill a market out of its league.
It's trying to sell to the hardcore gamers, who want big complex games, with online play, and great graphics.
Except almost all gamers who want that, get it from a PC. since the PC can do those MUCH better than a console can.
So when you can build a better PC for the same price of a total PS3 system, and the PC will do what the console does, except better. and can also do much more.
Why buy a PS3?
X1600, X1650, X1800, X1900 & X1950 series more like. It only runs when your system is idle.