MikeB on 05 March 2008
| Rock_on_2008 said: Whether you are a Sony fanboy or neutral. The XBox 360 has the best graphics card despite the XBox 360 with its well known hardware problems. The graphics card for the XBox 360 is 512 MB, thats is as good as most PC graphic cards. |
The PS3 has 512 MB as well, the GPU can access both XDR and GDDR3 RAM simultaneously, this increasing bandwidth as well. The 360 RAM is shared by the CPU and GPU, only one can access at a time, limiting bandwidth. Apart from the bandwitdh advantage, the PS3 has the advantage for having a harddrive by default, look at this as potential virtual memory like on a PC. Also the RSX can peform more shader ops per second, the 360 has no GPU advantage if both setups are tapped towards potential dealing with 720p or 1080p graphics.
In addition the much more powerful Cell processor inside the PS3 is able to handle tasks usually done by GPUs, doing some things more efficiently and freeing up resources on the GPU to do other stuff.
