http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2461
I love the part where developers basically say that they're both hard to program for and that's going to hold them back. Gee, I think I remember hearing that posted here a while back. Oh yeah, that's exactly what I said.
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So that also makes the promise of Nintendo's Revolution only being about 3-5 times as powerful as the current GC in the same ballpark as the other next gen consoles.
I love the part where developers basically say that they're both hard to program for and that's going to hold them back. Gee, I think I remember hearing that posted here a while back. Oh yeah, that's exactly what I said.
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The most ironic bit of it all is that according to developers, if either manufacturer (sony or microsoft) had decided to use an Athlon 64 or a Pentium D in their next-gen console, they would be significantly ahead of the competition in terms of CPU performance.
the real-world performance of the Xenon CPU is about twice that of the 733MHz processor in the first Xbox
Paraphased :The Cell processor doesn’t get off the hook just because it only uses a single one of these horribly slow cores; the SPE array ends up being fairly useless in the majority of situations, making it little more than a waste of die space.
the core in the Xenon processor in the Xbox2 is essentially the same as the PPE in the PS3
So that also makes the promise of Nintendo's Revolution only being about 3-5 times as powerful as the current GC in the same ballpark as the other next gen consoles.