Will All Three Next-Gen Consoles Be Unique?

[Soleron]

lilbroex said:

Soleron said:
If they're all Power CPU + AMD GPU boxes, which looks likely, it should be very easy to compare performance. None of the debate over Cell vs PowerPC or RDRAM vs whatever MS did.

Isn't the Cell a PowerPC processor at its heart?

Similar instruction set and does contain a single PowerPC core, but the SPUs are very limited and have to be coded for with the asymmetry in mind. It probably WAS more powerful than the Xenon when fully optimised for but few devs bothered hence the ceaseless debate.

The AMD v Nvidia GPU debate was also bad because there was no desktop equivalent to the R520 to compare to.