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Originally Posted by 3 Justin 3
The 360 has twice the ram the PS3 has, which is a fact. I should have stated, that is the reason why it is superior, not because of games, etc.
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*facepalm* Please stop arguing things you have no understanding of. You obviously have no concept of how technology works or that the PS3 and Xbox work completely different in how they process data and have completely different architecture. IIRC, in terms of system memory, both consoles actually have the same amount. The Xbox has 512MB of shared GDDR3. The PS3 has 256MB of system memory and 256MB of video memory. Correct me if I am wrong on this.
The PS3 has 7 processors instead of 3 with far more cache which is much more important than system ram. The PS3 has double the floating point performance. The PS3 system bandwidth far exceeds the Xbox 360's because it's designed to constantly pipeline data to it's cell processors. There is a reason why the US Navy has computing farms setup with hundreds of PS3s running linux and not Xboxes. I could bring up random numbers that are bigger all day and it would still mean little.
This still does not mean that the PS3 is better than the Xbox. It comes down to software and the PS3's biggest issue is lazy developers who find programming for the Xbox much easier given the similarity to PC development and then do a poor job of porting it over to the PS3's cell architecture and OpenGL video. Additionally, because of cross platform gaming, they usually restrict game resources to the lowest common denominator - that being the Xbox 360 as the weakest of all major gaming platforms in terms of technical performance, therefore neither the PS3 or the PC can make use of their greater power.