Xbox 360 is 'better' than PS3. it has more RAM memory

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something that most people seem to be overlooking when comparing
Playstation3 to Xbox 360
-- the Xbox 360 has more total RAM memory than PS3.

Xbox 360 has 522 MB RAM total: 512 MB + 10 MB EDRAM

Playstation3 has 512 MB total: 256 MB + 256 MB


this alone makes Xbox 360 better, as far as its hardware.

there are other areas where Xbox 360 seems totally superior to PS3, such as
memory bandwidth, thanks to that EDRAM, but looking at the amount of RAM
alone, I don't see how PS3 can be stronger than Xbox 360. RAM means more
than almost anything. more than nonsense Gflops numbers or other
theoretical specs. RAM amount is a hard, provable, solid measure. there
is no denying that Xbox 360 has more memory than PS3. Also, Xbox360's
GDDR3 memory is the same memory than PS3 uses on the GPU side of its memory.
The other half of PS3's memory, the Rambus XDR memory, is totally unproven
(like Cell) and could have HORRIBLE latency problems as Rambus has a history
of having bad latency issues with its RAM. it was true of the Nintendo64 and
the Playstation2 which both used Rambus DRAM.


how could Sony, who is claiming that PS3 is twice as powerful as Xbox360,
put LESS RAM memory into their console, than a supposedly weaker console?
does not make sense.
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Dick Head this is the Wrong News Group and the Xbox is utter CRAP not
backwoods compatible. so go shove it..
 
Actually, I'm *very* surprised they both went with such a low amount of
RAM. THis is supposed to be good for the next 5 years or so and already
1GB of RAM is pretty much a requirement on the PC front. Not having the
consoles ship with 1GB is a huge mistake IMO.
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You forget that a console needs no OS to load and such. 512 is alot for a
console.

..Jarle
 
something that most people seem to be overlooking when comparing
Playstation3 to Xbox 360
-- the Xbox 360 has more total RAM memory than PS3.

Xbox 360 has 522 MB RAM total: 512 MB + 10 MB EDRAM

Playstation3 has 512 MB total: 256 MB + 256 MB


this alone makes Xbox 360 better, as far as its hardware.
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Hahaha! Thanks.
 
Sure it does.
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No it doesn't. The game itsself can quite happily become the only
process running on the machine. There are plenty of machines that do
that. There are plenty of embedded system that work in the same way.

Once you get over the lack of need for a general purpose ****ed OS that
has to cater for all and huge amounts of security you can get a lot more
out of the avaliable memory.

Of course understanding it depends on knowledge of PCs compared to just
reeling off a load of buzzwords and product name dropping.
 
Dick Head this is the Wrong News Group and the Xbox is utter CRAP not
backwoods compatible. so go shove it..
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Do you know alot about backwoods then? What sort of seedy things go on
there :-)
 
<blazinglazer> wrote:

Crossposting a$$hole.

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Done.
 
Dog Bowl said:
No it doesn't.
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Sure it does.
The game itsself can quite happily become the only
process running on the machine. There are plenty of machines that do
that. There are plenty of embedded system that work in the same way.
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There might be plenty of systems that do that, but the XBox and 360 aren't
one of them, sorry. The XBox ran a 2000 deriviative and the the 360
supposedly is running a XBox derivative.

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS3988467635.html
Once you get over the lack of need for a general purpose ****ed OS that
has to cater for all and huge amounts of security you can get a lot more
out of the avaliable memory.
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General Purpose OS, perhaps, but OS, no. There's no getting away from it on
the XBox or 360.
Of course understanding it depends on knowledge of PCs compared to just
reeling off a load of buzzwords and product name dropping.
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lol. Quite a funny quote, coming from you. :)

It's silly to say that a system as complex as the XBox(2) has no OS. Sure,
your iToaster might not have one, but that's a silly comment to make.
There's no comparison between your iToaster and the XBox(2).

PS2 runs a proprietary Sony OS. That's no secret. The PS3 has an OS. Phil
Harrison talks about it here.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=9051

"You showed demonstrations of the console running multiple applications
across the two HDMI outputs - is that something which is actually built into
the system's operating systems, or do games have to support it specifically?
Depending on the features that you exploit, some of it's handled by the OS,
some of it will be handled by the applications."



Even the PSP has an OS.

No need to thank me for clearing this up for you. You're quite welcome in
advance. Hope you don't make the same silly mistake again. :)
 
chrisv said:
<blazinglazer> wrote:

Crossposting a$$hole.

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X-DMCA-Complaints-To: (e-mail address removed)

Done.
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LOL! Add FBI.gov and UFOHunters.org too! Hilarious
 
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