bdbdbd said:
captain carot said:
PS2 was more expensive than PS1 at release.
At the same time growth in power was much bigger back then. Not only for consoles but for all that computer stuff. Actually one of the reasons PC's were outdated so fast back then.
Right now PC's have the same problem. You can be happy if a new GPU generation is 50% faster then its predecessor today.
About Xbox 360 at release:
Fastest graphics card back then should have been the (rare) GeForce GTX 7800 512MB. Though you could have those as SLI system.
The Xbox 360 GPU was at least as fast as the GTX 7800. |
Naturally it depends what tasks they were supposed to perform. Xenos benefited from being designed to be used only with one hardware, whereas 7800 needed to work with lots of different type of HW. The eDRAM really boosted the performance of the chip, but on a downside, the GPU suffered from slow VRAM with high latency.
I'd remember PS1 was damn expensive at it's Japanese launch.
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Well, yes and no. It had the eDRAM. But basically it was a 'normal' unified shader GPU though it's the first consumer market unified shader GPU. The R600 was based on the same layout/design though with full DX10.
Xenos was more or less DirectX 9c+something. Microsoft wanting some additional features is discussable as custom design. But then it was Sony that went with a brute force CPU and added a more or less standard GPU with minor changes last minute.
