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[QUOTE="Jag85"] And how much do you think a PC with a 9-core 3.2 GHz CPU and GeForce 7900 GPU would have cost in 2006? Oh wait, there weren't even any quad-core CPUs on the PC market back, let alone a 9-core CPU...
Jag85
Ya right, the PS3 core processor "PPE" is slower then a Pentium 4 from 2003, then Its gpu RSX is not a 7900, its a gimped Geforce 7800 with only 256mb of memory at 25gb/s with only 8 ROP's. While a normal 7800GTX has 512mb of memory at 54 GB/s and has 16 ROP's and even in 2009 with RE 5 a 7800GTX outclassed both HD consoles. Also the 360's tri core is slower then a Athlon X2 from 2005. And just to let you know that the PS3 cost Sony $700 to make a $500 model back in 2006, Sony didnt make a dime on PS3 until late 2009. the PS3 was not ahead of the curve , the 360 was in 2005 with its gpu, but by the same month as the PS3 released the Geforce 8800GTX came out which trumps both consoles and still today outclasses both. I had a Pentium 4 a few years ago and its performance didn't come anywhere near even a fraction of the PS3's Cell. Besides, you and the two posters above you all dodged my actual question: How much would a PC that could rival the PS3's specs cost back in 2006? I can guarantee you it would have cost at least five times what the PS3 cost back then. Even a PC that could rival the Xbox 360 would have cost several times more than the PS3. Has everyone forgotten how much of a fortune you'd need to spend to get a PC that could even run Crysis back in 2007? I rest my case.How exactly are you comparing the P4's performance with the PowerPC performance, as far as I know there is no way to possibly compare them as they are two different platforms with many other parts involved doing completely different things.
The P4 is actually superior in a lot of ways to the cores in the PowerPC tri-core Cpu, even the P3 is superior in some ways. PowerPC is actually based on old architecture. I'll explain;
Intel micro-architecture is vastly superior to the PowerPC micro-architecture.The PowerPC Xbox 360 CPU uses "in-order" execution instead of the out-of-order execution used in the P3 chip in the original xbox. This was to reduce the CPU die size, power requirements and cost largely. In-order execution is not good. Hyperthreading (which is completely useless and pointless in gaming) was instigated purely to remedy the issue of in-order execution CPUs stalling when they are waiting for data. Hyperthreading is used on Intel Atom chips for precisely the same reason. The Tri-core PowerPC in the xbox360 cores are also small and lack transistors, plus only 1mb L2 cache is spread across 3 CPUs.
On top of that the general PowerPC architecture isn't great universally, that's why Apple dropped it and went with Intel eventually.
The Xbox PowerPC Tri-core is cheaply made and performs badly in relation to its proclaimed clock speed etc (A hyperthetical 3-core P4 would outperform it by a long long way)
In short the tri-core PowerPC cpu in both the PS3 and Xbox doesn't even come close to an intel quadcore CPU of any clock speed. If you were being extremely generous you could argue that it might under certain circumstances be comparable to a bottom of the range intel dual core CPU. Even then I seriously doubt it would really.
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