Remember when Sony said the PS3 would render at 120 fps? Forget it, 240fps

[MikeB]

@ selnor

and I trust their Boffins much more than Sony or you,

It does not take a rocket scientist to understand it's a completely bogus comparison.

For example 278.4 GB/s for the 360 (of which 256 GB/s is internal Xenos bandwidth being fed data (and moved back and forth if tiling occurs) from the main RAM much slower vs the 48 GB/s for the PS3 (split up for XDR and GDDR3, which can be used simultaneously).

Now add the Cell internal memory bandwidth of 307.2 GB/s. So not taking into account technical restrictions for both platforms it's:

~355 GB/s for the PS3 and 278.4 GB/s for the 360 (BTW most modern PCs have A LOT less bandwidth using such rediculous measures). This is entirely useless though for comparison sake let me provide you one very simple example.

Let's say you have a full PC on a daughtter board capable of achieving 40 GB/s in a full PC (also 40 GB/s total memory bandwith) and would limit the communication between them to 1KB per minute. Total system bandwidth using your way of thinking results in a 80 GB/s memory bandwidth system. I used an extreme example to get the point across, at 1 KB/minute data feeds this daughter board PC is completely useless.