Report: Rage Runs Faster on 360, Carmack Confirms

If you know anything about the hardware differences between the 360 and PS3, then Carmack's statement is pretty much a given. The 360 is a much more balanced computing platform and has a significantly more capable GPU than what Sony put in the PS3, plain and simple.

Where the 360 has a 6 threaded processor, the PS3 has a two threaded processor and 7 FPU processors that have nearly zero functionality, until the developer has gone out of their way to re-write all of their processing and graphics intensive code to take advantage of them.

The art of making games on the PS3 run as fast and look as good as they naturally do on a 360 is the art of taking those extra 7 processors and using them to make up for where the main processor and the GPU are deficient in comparison to those included in the 360.

Granted, this is John Carmack we're talking about, one of the best engine code writers out there- I fully expect him to get the PS3 version up to snuff. If Rage is all they say it will be, they might even get some licenses out of it.

The PS3 is graphically inferior to the 360 thanks to a weaker GPU, this is a known fact.
The thing is when developers put the hard work in, often the difference is minimal, certainly not a 50% difference.

Carmack has openly admitted the PS3 is a bitch to code for and he wants it pretty easy so he can flex his muscles with a system, he's never really been a console developer so I can understand the trouble.

I wouldn't go anywhere near the point of classifying Carmack as either stupid or lazy, however I would be willing to say that I think if the effort was put in, the PS3 version should be at least a bit closer to the 360.
Anyone who has seen Uncharted, MGS4, Killzone 2 or Burnout Paradise knows what the PS3 is capable of.
Finally: This is not to say he should have to put in so much effort but this would be one of the biggest gaps between the 360 and PS3 thus far in a game if it ends up releasing like this.

FWIW the 360 has 512mb of ram which can be allocated however they like, 100mb for the game, 412mb for textures or 200mb for textures 312mb for other (etc) it also has a more superior GPU than the PS3 as it's remotely similar to the ATI x1800 (I think?) with all those easily progammable shaders.
Nvidia's competition to this part was the awesome 8800GT / GTS at the time, also programmable and cool functionality, however the PS3 shipped before the 8800 and has a 7900}g as the video card in it, hence the differences.

Also PS3 is 256/256 game / texture memory, no splitting of it and it has a weaker CPU but lots of programmable SPU's which are a whore to program for.
Give a PS3 to the crazy Japs and they will do some wacky stuff with it but the 360 is simply easier, to get looking nicer and running faster.

I still love my PS3 and frankly, I might be a console man now but who the fuck will buy Rage on console anyhow? PC goddamnit

PS3 has 7800GTX or something? How are you supposed to run next gen graphics on that piece of shit?