@ starcraft
Looking at the XBox 360 architecture and issues, the XBox 360 design seems rushed and originally only intended to have half the system memory. More system memory is of course always a benefit.
But IMO it would have been much better to step away from the cheaper shared memory architecture and have both the GPU and CPU connected to dedicated RAM using seperate busses. Also having a HD DVD or Blu-Ray drive internally would have been a far better long term benefit.
It's not like I think the XBox 360 is total crap, ATi's GPU is still interesting with its flexible shader approach although this seems to come at a cost with regard to the amount of total operations that can be performed compared to a dedicated shader model. The on chip EDRAM seems to have been mainly intended to have things like cheap AA (performance wise) but even 1st party games already seem to have advanced beyond its optimal use for such things as Forza 2 and Halo 3 do not offer AA at all.
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