Brittany
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Neither of the titles on either of the systems is official yet, but lets discuss anyway. They're both being released, or atleast showcased, pretty soon.
Playstation III-
As any gamer should know, PS3 will utilize the cell processor, which they, Toshiba, and IMB have been jointly working on for a couple years now. The Cell processor has been rumored to excess 16 teraflops, which doesn't just mean trouble Microsoft on X2, but also trouble for Intel in the server field. The prototype model was clocked at 4Ghz, already excessing most of todays cutting edge processors- include the fact that each core on the processor was designed to tackle different jobs, this is the god of multitasking.
With all of that said, it seemed kindof obvious that they wouldn't be needing a seperate graphics processor, but Sony didn't think so- they've been working with nvidia on PS3's GPU which will consist of a beefed up version of their future hardware. It's rumored that it won't act entirely as the main provider of graphics goodness to PS3, but work together with the cell to tackle actions the PS3 takes in the field of graphics.
Lastly, it will utilize BluRay discs, which have a huge amount of space(many times more than a DVD), and BD drives utilize a blue ray, hence the name.
Xbox-
Nothing really unexpected here, just picking up from the slack they're laying behind from PS3 by using enough RAM to get things done, something Sony seems to forgotten to do(especially with all of those ram decreases, shame on you Sony). I never got around to memorizing the specs, probably because they don't seem as special as the PS3's, but then again, where PS3's extreme pwnage in one area dominates, X2 is countering with common sense.
Playstation III-
As any gamer should know, PS3 will utilize the cell processor, which they, Toshiba, and IMB have been jointly working on for a couple years now. The Cell processor has been rumored to excess 16 teraflops, which doesn't just mean trouble Microsoft on X2, but also trouble for Intel in the server field. The prototype model was clocked at 4Ghz, already excessing most of todays cutting edge processors- include the fact that each core on the processor was designed to tackle different jobs, this is the god of multitasking.
With all of that said, it seemed kindof obvious that they wouldn't be needing a seperate graphics processor, but Sony didn't think so- they've been working with nvidia on PS3's GPU which will consist of a beefed up version of their future hardware. It's rumored that it won't act entirely as the main provider of graphics goodness to PS3, but work together with the cell to tackle actions the PS3 takes in the field of graphics.
Lastly, it will utilize BluRay discs, which have a huge amount of space(many times more than a DVD), and BD drives utilize a blue ray, hence the name.
Xbox-
Nothing really unexpected here, just picking up from the slack they're laying behind from PS3 by using enough RAM to get things done, something Sony seems to forgotten to do(especially with all of those ram decreases, shame on you Sony). I never got around to memorizing the specs, probably because they don't seem as special as the PS3's, but then again, where PS3's extreme pwnage in one area dominates, X2 is countering with common sense.
