subject: Playstation 3 Vs Xbox 360 Analysis Of The Two Best Games Console [print this page] There were a lot of confusion on the fact that Sony's Playstation 3 is better Xbox 360 core system or vice versa was. Both consoles offer good support at Indy with games like Braid on XBLA and PSN PixelJunk games. Both are great titles like Mega Man and Street Fighter HD So what are the differences between the two consoles?
CPU:
The CPU of the Xbox 360 has the processing power of a vector and educational products. The console also has three general-purpose cores and each core has 128 vector registers per hardware thread with only 1 MB of L2 cache and an instruction to climb. The CPU of the Sony Playstation 3 makes possible an environment in 87.5% of the work is DSP calculations work and 12.5% for the general purpose computing.
GPU:
The Xbox 360 GPU is more powerful than the PlayStation 3 from Sony The Xbox 360 GPU has more transistors and programmable GFLOPs number is almost equal. To get more options for the floating-point graphics rendering of the PS3 is more than seven DSP on the cell. On the other hand, the three general purpose cores of the Xbox 360 with D3D and dot product instructions for custom graphics that are tailored to actual calculations.
Multithreading of balance and other characteristics of the GPU of the Xbox 360. the automatic load balancing shader, vertex shader texture fetch in full, TESSELATOR triangle programmable memory export features, programmable vertex retrieve other features of the Xbox 360, contribute to the rendering power of the gadget.
Bandwidth:
For a full system bandwidth of 48 GB / s, the Playstation 3 25.6GB / s of RDRAM bandwidth and 22.4 GB / s bandwidth has GDDR3. On the other hand, for a 278.4 GB / s total bandwidth of the Xbox 360 system to 256 GB / s eDRAM bandwidth and 22.4 GB / s of GDDR3 bandwidth. PS3 try to compensate for the lack of storage by means of Z and color compression.
Multimedia:
When it comes to multimedia, is the great advantage of the PS3, that streaming media and also allow users to store media on it. In the case of Xbox 360 as a media extender and does not convert AVI files on your hard disk to store. In addition, the PS3 is, so far, the only console to play Blu-ray video of the game. It has high quality video, reactive control, and also supports the latest features.
Backwards compatibility:
In the case of compatibility on Xbox 360 meets PS3. The PS3 does not support the PS2 library as they do not have the functionality PS2. Alternatively, you can buy a used 20GB or 60GB if you want a PS2 compatible. This can be considered as one of the disadvantages of the PS3. Microsoft has is backwards compatibility for Xbox 360 and the online library, however, whether the addition of original Xbox games console duly authorized.
Open-source operating system:
Playstation3 is the only game console that allows the user to install Linux, it is not allowed to play while in Linux though. Microsoft plans to update Xbox 360 and working on a version of Linux can be installed on the console.
PS3 simplifies the choice for gamers and the import region is a completely free game console. Xbox 360 has excellent graphics and power of the GPU to run at high resolution. With the Playstation 3, some of the games, the installation on your hard drive, while the Xbox 360, you have the choice of installation.
Both the video game consoles have their strengths and weaknesses, and both are very successful.
