It's the battle of the ages, played out with a new generation of hardware that, for the first time, appears to leave even high-end gaming PCs in the dust. Opinions about Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3 vary, but it's pretty clear that both devices are going to kick ass.
Looking over the specifications, and listening to representatives of both companies, however, Paul Thurrott's SuperSite has pubblished a technical comparison about these products with a lot of tables. This is the Graphics Processor table:
| Graphics processor |
| Feature |
Xbox 360 |
PlayStation 3 |
| GPU Type |
ATI-based |
NVIDIA-based RSX |
| Clock speed |
500 MHz |
550 MHz |
| Video RAM |
Up to 512 MB
GDDR3 system RAM (700 MHz) plus 10 MB embedded DRAM frame
buffer |
256MB GDDR3 (700MHz) |
| Total floating point performance |
1 teraflop
(claimed, likely spurious) |
1.8 teraflops
(claimed, likely spurious) |
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