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To: Klink who wrote (218418)	12/1/2006 3:01:36 PM
From: pgerassi	Respond to of 275872

Dear Klink: No way gaming consoles replace PCs. But with Fusion, PCs will replace gaming consoles. Gaming consoles are not that fast wrt PC graphics. The graphics engine in the PS3 is a Geforce 7800 at 550MHz core. You can get that performance for $200 today. It will be $100 next year and entry level in 2008. So when Fusion appears, PCs will have PS3 level graphics out of the box. Also don't take Sony's hype of theoretical performance numbers. Their 2TFlops number is based on 1.8TFlops coming from the GPU, 180Gflops from the SPEs (SP 873.2GHz) and 25Gflops from the PPE (8*3.2GHz). They don't have the bandwidth to sustain that amount of performance. By that standard, a 2GHz A64 X2 has 32Gflops (SP). And you have the GPU, the ethernet MAC, the sound processors, the RAID controllers and all of the other HW accelerators. Most middle range PCs will exceed the PS3 numbers. Pete