X360 vs. PS3 Specsheet

http://www.majornelson.com/2005/05/2...3-part-1-of-4/

Blatantly and shamelessly stolen from OA:

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The Xbox 360’s CPU has more general purpose processing power because it has three general purpose cores, and Cell has just one.

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Cell’s claimed advantage is on streaming floating point work which is done on its seven DSP processors.

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The Xbox 360 GPU has more processing power than the PS3’s. In addition, its innovated features contribute to overall rendering performance.

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Xbox 360 has 278.4 GB/s of memory system bandwidth. The PS3 has less than one-fifth of Xbox 360’s (48 GB/s) of total memory system bandwidth.

CONCLUSION
When you break down the numbers, Xbox 360 has provably more performance than PS3. Keep in mind that Sony has a track record of over promising and under delivering on technical performance. The truth is that both systems pack a lot of power for high definition games and entertainment.

However, hardware performance, while important, is only a third of the puzzle. Xbox 360 is a fusion of hardware, software and services. Without the software and services to power it, even the most powerful hardware becomes inconsequential. Xbox 360 games—by leveraging cutting-edge hardware, software, and services—will outperform the PlayStation 3.

I could care less what bar graphs say really, I just want to see some games damn't! AND GOOD ONES!

Sell your PS3s, it's all over.

So, does this mean that when properly used the Xbox 360 will produce better graphics than the PS3? Becuase I really have no idea what having more CPU general purpose performance or floating point performance means.

(insert dick measuring joke)

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...id=15559&stc=1

vs.

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I also don't see how "Sony has a track record of over promising and under delivering on technical performance." PS2 games today look even better than the PS2 demos before launch.

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Originally Posted by Opaque

So, does this mean that when properly used the Xbox 360 will produce better graphics than the PS3? Becuase I really have no idea what having more CPU general purpose performance or floating point performance means.

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I think floating point performance is more fit to do things such as intense physics calculations, but obviously I'm not quite sure.

What a waste of a thread.

I'm sure any minute now someone'll post a completely different set of graphs that say how the PS3 is more powerful than the 360. And the cycle goes on...

Most of that total memory bandwidth (256 GBs/sec) comes from the bandwidth to the 10 megs of EDRAM. This comparison is rather stupid.