| Navane said: I dunno, I've read that at the time the Xbox 360 was released it was more powerful (or at least just as powerful) than high-end PCs at the time. |
only because it was the first system to use the all new unified shader architecture, but this time around there is no such thing to boost your performance
and the PC market has changed a lot, the highest performance components now are way way more expensive than they were back then - you can buy a $900 graphics card (or 4 of them) and a $1000 CPU and have a monstrous system (and that's about what PC sites use for gaming benchmarks)
back in 2005 there were premium components allright, but the edge they had in performance was maybe ~10%, while now it can be 50 or more % seperating "mid-tier"(~$150 graphics card + $150 CPU) from "high-end"
