| Quantum-Tarantino said: Whoa there Dio The BOX had a 766Mhz CELERON processor The CUBE had a 485 Mhz POWER PC Processor When comparing speeds between the 2, you need to AT LEAST double the MHZ speed of the Power PC (thats for comparing to Pentiums, and Celerons are FAR less powerful" In Short, the the CPU on the CUBE was FAR better |
Actually to clear some things up the Xbox does not have a 766Mhz Celeron, it has a modified Pentium 3 running at 733 Mhz. It's main difference from a Celeron is that it has an 8-way set associative L2 cache instead of the 4-way set associative cache of the Celeron. That makes it about 10% faster than a Celeron.
The Gamecube's cpu is based on a Power PC 750, a regular Celeron running at 733 Mhz beats a Power PC 750 running at 500 Mhz. Now since the Gamecube's Power PC cpu is running slower than 485 Mhz and the Xbox's cpu is 10% faster than a Celeron it's *extremely* likely that the Xbox's cpu is more powerful than the Gamecube's.
What I'm trying to say is that maybe you should give up this argument because the Xbox has a more powerful GPU, CPU, more ram, and superior sound, built in ethernet, and a built in harddrive. Of course you don't have to believe me since I'm providing a link to Anandtech to confirm it.
source: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=1566&p=14
