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Slimebeast on 26 March 2012
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Sal.Paradise said:
disolitude said:
Sal.Paradise said:
disolitude said:

While his post is pretty funny Xbox 1 and 2 were mid to high tier spec wise when they came out in terms of GPU. The Xenos used in the 360 was a hybrid of X1800/1850 and later to be introduced X1900/1950. 

Are you really trying to tell me that the x1800/x1900 hybrid gpu was as powerful as a high end nvidia geforce 7 series in SLI? Really?

As cool as SLI and crossfire are, it really isn't a benchmark of technology sophistication, efficiency or GPU power. Single GPU's is where its at for the latest and greatest...and SLi is just adding more of the same tech in to a GPU processing array. I'm surprised you didn't mention Quad SLI vs X1900/1950 which was also possible at the time using the 7900GTX2.

Bottom line is that Xbox 360 stuck the best GPU they possibly could in 2005 when it was released. X1900/1950 run curcles around 7800GTX and trade blows with the 7900GTX which came out 9 months later.

What a mess of an argument.

You're completely wrong here. SLI configurations are exactly, exactly, the latest and greatest in technology, and it is something that any home PC owner could do. To say that single gpu technology is 'where its at for the latest and greatest'  is like saying that a car with a single turbocharger is the latest and greatest, but not a car with twin turbochargers. It is technology available at the same time, and before, the 360's release, and it was and continues to be a realistic proposition for many PC enthusiasts that want high end machines. It is the definition of latest and greatest. 

And I do like how you contradict your statement by talking about quad SLI, more tech that is more powerful than the 360's GPU, I didn't even need to mention that as 'dual' SLI 7 series cards were more powerful already than the 360's GPU and they were available for anybody that wanted the latest and greatest, and let me remind you that for ATi cards the configuration is called 'Crossfire', not SLI. I think you are really out of your depth here mate, and these are just shallow waters. 

I don't care about the bottom line or what was realistic for Microsoft, or Sony, or Nintendo, we are arguing about the statement you made that the 360's GPU is comparable to high end-PC GPU's at the time, and that is just plain wrong. 

It's not wrong. It's perfectly correct that the X360 GPU was on par with the strongest PC GPU which at the time, which was the Nvidia 7800 GTX. The GPU in the X360 is around 75% of the power of a 7800GTX.