UPDATE: You know people, we
did question the validity of this information right off the bat (see sentence #3 in the original post). And as it turns
out, the RSX will be more powerful than the GeForce 7800—see Team Xbox's
apology.
This is not speculation. It comes straight from the company that manufactures both the PS3's RSX and the GeForce 7800 GPUs. True, you've got to be wary of the article's sources, namely Team Xbox (a rival) and the Inquirer. But still, if nVIDIA is admitting (allegedly in the Official PlayStation Magazine) that its latest PC graphics chip, the GeForce 7800, is more powerful then the RSX GPU to be featured in the PS3, then Sony might have slipped a notch in the "mine is bigger than yours" bickering match with MS.
If the PlayStation 3's launch is still a year away, and already we are seeing stronger PC GPUs, then you can hardly
call the PS3 a "next-gen" console. As for the Xbox 360's GPU (developed by ATI), Team Xbox claims that its technology
won't be matched on PCs until late 2006. Dag!
[Thanks, Dalvin]
