PS3 vs Xbox 360. Graphical Horsepower, My Thoughts!

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Turkish said:

Sigh, read my post again: RSX+Cell>360 CPU+GPU, I didnt claim RSX>Xenos, I'm well aware of the fact that Xenos is better than the RSX. The PS3 has around 400gflops(180 rsx, 220 cell), 360 has around 300-320(xenos 240gflop+cpu 70gflop ) thus RSX+Cell>360 CPU+GPU

Next time READ.

A CPU's maximum theoretical  floating point performance as you have listed there... Actually has very little to do with how powerfull a CPU really is. - Especially so as CPUs generally aren't simple dumb floating point processors, they can do some very heavy branchy integer stuff too, which is just as important.

Besides, it's IBM's marketing pitch, Sony and Micrososft have a vested financial incentive to grab those numbers and run with it for advertising to suck people in.
The very narrow 2-issue in-order cores both consoles use also happens to be very deeply pipelined, with a poor branch tree predictor on top of it, it's slow. Painfully so.

I'm surprised how often people throw those numbers out on this website without actually understanding what it is and why they simply aren't accurate.
There is no doubt the PS3 is more powerfull than the Xbox 360 in terms of theoretical performance... Anyone who argues that is silly, but those numbers for both consoles are simply false.