"More graphically impressive games than ever on their way to
PS3" - Textures require only two SPEs
President and founder of Allegorithmic shares his views on PS3 graphics. According to him, "
Gamers will be seeing more graphically impressive games than ever" with the
new ProfX. He further states that "
A very cool side effect of the PS3's architecture is that ProFX should be able to continuously stream textures -- using one or two SPUs to compute the textures to be given to the GPU to be displayed, that's a huge bonus for adding
rich content to games without having to stream that content from the BluRay or overloading the sole GPU of the machine."
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