 I Need Help Choosing Between a Xbox 360 or Ps3 |
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 Sep 3 2007, 03:10 AM
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i would personally buy a xbox 360 although i have a ps1 and ps2 and ps2mini im just sick of the fact that the lasers on them die so easily xboxs have a bit more life on em thats my point of view abd the xboxs r cheaper than the ps3's
This post has been edited by coldfusion: Sep 3 2007, 03:11 AM |
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Oct 12 2007, 01:01 PM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 504 Joined: 26-January 06 From: New Durham, NH Member No.: 17,651 |
Some of us haven't been reading the thread all the way...
 I did point out that the numbers are very similar when it comes to graphical capability. Although the RSX trumps the Xenos by a slight bit, the Xenos has a different chip architecture, which reminds me of AMD's on-die cache as opposed to Pentium's bridges, which makes single tasks a lot more efficient with AMD. This is true with the Xenos GPU. Unless someone can provide actual benchmarks to prove that statement wrong, I can safely say that both consoles differ slightly, if at all, in graphical processing and output. But now, for the CPUs... From Wiki: QUOTE The PS3 uses the Cell microprocessor, which is made up of a PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" (PPE) and six accessible 3.2 GHz Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs). A seventh runs in a special mode and is dedicated to aspects of the OS and security, and an eighth is disabled to improve production yields. The floating point performance of the whole system (CPU + GPU) is reported to be 2 TFLOPS.[1] PlayStation 3's Cell CPU achieves 204 GFLOPS single precision float and 15 GFLOPS double precision. The PS3 has 256 MB of Rambus XDR DRAM, clocked at CPU die speed. QUOTE Xenon is a CPU that is used in the Xbox 360 game console. The processor, internally codenamed "Waternoose" by IBM[1] and "XCPU" by Microsoft is based on IBM's PowerPC technology, consisting of 3 independent cores on a single chip. Each of the cores has two symmetric hardware threads (SMT), for a total of six hardware threads available to games. Each individual core also includes 32 KiB of L1 instruction cache and 32 KiB of L1 data cache. The processors are labelled "XCPU" on the packaging and are manufactured by Chartered. Chartered will reduce the fabrication process in 2007 to 65 nm, thus reducing manufacturing costs for Microsoft. The name "Xenon" was repurposed from the code name for the Xbox 360 in early development. Specifications
As you can see from CPU specifications, both the PS3 and the 360 share six functional "cores," all clocked at 3.2GHz. However, I personally can't tell which one could be better, since they both are completely different designs and I'm not exactly an expert with hardware. Simply put, we could say that both consoles are comparable with processing power. However, only benchmarks will be able to tell which console is actually better at processing data and rendering graphics. I'm not sure how fair it is to belittle the 360 because of its "infamous red rings of death," as the PS3 has suffered its own problems as well. This post has been edited by rayzoredge: Oct 12 2007, 01:04 PM |
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