Legend11 said:
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. |
The Gekko is a custom processor based on the PowerPC G3 (750) architecture but has an advanced instruction set (50 instructions added) larger L2 cache and an advanced bus to handle the fast 1T-SRAM in the Gamecube. If you're calling the Gekko. At the time the G3 was considered (approximately) 1.5 times as powerful per clock cycle as a Pentium 3 and the G4 was considered twice as powerful as a Pentium 4.
If you didn't realize it this is the same core that both the PS3 and XBox 360 CPUs are based off of and by your logic my 3 year old Pentium 4 3GHz is more powerful than either the PS3 or XBox 360's CPU; trust me it isn't.
