Xbox vs Playstation 3

With Sony\'s specs out, Microsoft has sent us its a comparitive analysis. What\'s the outcome?

by Douglass C. Perry
May 20, 2005 - It\'s 3:30 pm on Friday, May 20, the last day of E3. The fine PR folks from Microsoft, who invited us to their headquarters a week before E3 to show us their system, their specs, and the grand design behind their powerful new Xbox 360, have just sent us an urgent notice to update our specs with new information. Earlier in the day, we were sent a comparative analysis of the Xbox 360\'s power vs. the PlayStation 3\'s power.



We decided to put this Microsoft-provided information up undigested. Thus, enclosed is a Microsoft-made comparitive analysis. We have not altered, added, or tinkered with the data. We have not interpreted the specs. We have cut and pasted this information from the email into our site and formatted it. Make of it what you will, but be clear we know Microsoft has clearly slanted this info, and we\'re not endorsing it, just printing their version. There is a difference.

XBOX 360 / PLAYSTATION 3 PERFORMANCE COMPARISON

SUMMARY
Now that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 specifications have been announced, it is possible to do a real world performance comparison of the two systems.

There are three critical performance aspects of a console:

Central Processing Unit (CPU) performance.
The Xbox 360 CPU architecture has three times the general purpose processing power of the Cell.

Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) performance
The Xbox 360 GPU design is more flexible and it has more processing power than the PS3 GPU.

Memory System Bandwidth
The memory system bandwidth in Xbox 360 exceeds the PS3\'s by five times.



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



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



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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wasn\'t there a discussion about this already?...xbox reps say the 360 is more powerful while sony reps say the opposite...even tho looking at the above article clearly make it seems like the 360 is more powerful, but i think this was discussed already...

I had provided a link to it in this thread:
http://www.psx2central.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36609

Microsoft says their system is best? Sony disagrees?

This is unbelievable.

IGN, or wherever Doug Perry works now, should smack themselves for considering this newsworthy.

-Dan

I searched in the beyond3D forums about this.They say thats total BS.
Btw there is a guy who claims that he works on Heavenly Sword.Pretty interesting stuff he sais.It appears that it is the actual thing
He sounds pretty honest since instead of mentioning PS3 as "the best thing ever" he mentions both difficulties and the advandages of the console.
He also said that some small of the parts of the movie was CGI rendered using the in game engine because of time restrains and lack of resources.

Lets see

PS2 was nowhere near as powerful as the xbox yet alot of PS2 games looked just as good or better.

Now the consoles are more equal.

Which means games like GranTurismo 5 will look better than Xbox 360.

Xbox 360?  Is that a code name for their new console?  I hope it is .  If its not that is the worst name for a console ever.  

What is 360?  I can understand dreamcast,  gamecube,  but 360?  

360 is just as bad as Playstation 3.  If not,  in my opinion,  worst.  I wonder if they will name their next console Xbox 720

Sony would have made a huge mistake if they changed the console\'s name

You can understand "Dreamcast"?

-Dan

Originally posted by alliswell
Lets see

PS2 was nowhere near as powerful as the xbox yet alot of PS2 games looked just as good or better.

Now the consoles are more equal.

Which means games like GranTurismo 5 will look better than Xbox 360.

Xbox 360?  Is that a code name for their new console?  I hope it is .  If its not that is the worst name for a console ever.  

What is 360?  I can understand dreamcast,  gamecube,  but 360?  

360 is just as bad as Playstation 3.  If not,  in my opinion,  worst.  I wonder if they will name their next console Xbox 720

st8 flame bait:laughing:

It\'s just not as fun as it use to be

Originally posted by Eiksirf
You can understand "Dreamcast"?

-Dan

Dream+Broadcast

propaganda

No its worse....Its brainwash....They even emit rays that mess with your brain\'s frequency turning you into a zealot

Nintendo just released a study that says the Revolution is better than PS3 and Captain Lou Albano combined.

-Dan

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These figures are bullshit and have been proven so from many tech head sites.

lol everytime these console are released it\'s the same old BS each time.

If you look at past console the graphics where basicly the same on each individual system. It has always came down to the games.
Why people put so much into the power thing when we know the graphics will be the same on each console.