TheBigFatJ on 12 October 2007
| GranTurismo said: Each system has the same amount of ram last i cheacked but the PS3 has more powerful ram, the PS3 has 256 normal ram and 256 XDR ram clocked at 3.2ghz. While the 360 has 512 normal ram. |
By "normal ram" you mean GDDR 3 ram. The bandwidth between the memory and system is pretty close for the PS3 and Xbox 360. The 360 uses a unified memory architecture, which has the advantage of flexibility and the disadvantage of sharing bandwidth. The PS3 has the opposite advantage/disadvantage: non-shared bandwidth but less flexible memory usage. In theory, it could provide higher memory performance if memory performance is your bottleneck, but it will be harder to work with.
The Cell, on the other hand, just isn't as good for gaming as the Xbox 360s CPU cores. If there were two cores like Sony originally intended it would be much more competitive.
