Let The Console Wars Begin!
Microsoft last Tuesday showed off the new Xbox 360. Today, Sony displayed it’s console the Playstation 3. Nintendo was also going to show off it’s new console, but I don’t care about them. We’ll ignore Nintendo for now. The Xbox 360 is scheduled to be released around Thanksgiving of this year. The PS3 is supposed to be released in Spring of 2006. Having the Xbox released before Sony’s is huge for Microsoft. This will allow them to take more of the console market share. Let’s talk about specs.
Microsoft XBox 360
- Windows XP Media Center 2005
- Backward compatible to current Xbox
- Wireless controllers
- built in WiFi
- removable 20Gb HD
- three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz
Sony Playstation 3
CPU: Cell Processor PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
–1 VMX vector unit per core
–512KB L2 cache
–7 x SPE @3.2GHz
–7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
–7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
–*1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
–Total floating point performance: 218 gigaflops
GPU RSX @ 550MHz
–1.8 TFLOPS floating point Performance
–Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
–Multi-way programmable parallel Floating point shader pipelines
–Sound Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell-based processing)
MEMORY
256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz
256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz
System Bandwidth Main RAM– 25.6GB/s
VRAM–22.4GB/s
RSX– 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
SB2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)
SYSTEM FLOATING POINT PERFORMANCE:
2 teraflops
STORAGE
–HDD Detachable 2.5" HDD slot x 1
–I/O–USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
–Memory Stickstandard/Duo, PRO x 1
–SD standard/mini x 1
–CompactFlash(Type I, II) x 1
COMMUNICATION
–Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)
–Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
–Bluetooth–Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)
–ControllerBluetooth (up to 7)
–USB 2.0 (wired)
–Wi-Fi (PSP)
–Network (over IP)
AV OUTPUT
Screen size 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI out x 2
AV multi out x 1
Digital out (optical) x 1
DISC MEDIA
CD
PlayStation CD-ROM
PlayStation2 CD-ROM
CD-DA
CD-DA (ROM),
CD-R,
CD-RW
SACD Hybrid (CD layer),
SACD HD
DualDisc (audio side)
DualDisc (DVD side)
PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM
PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM
DVD-ROM
DVD-R
DVD-RW
DVD+R,
DVD+RW
Blu-ray Disc
PlayStation 3 BD-ROM
BD-ROM
BD
Need I say more!?!? These are going to be naughty! Time to save my pennies.
