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I'm a PS3 fan, and I'm sorry but sony fudged up on the GPU department, and bottom line, it doesn't matter.
GPU only matters as far as development goes.
Sony wanted a customized chip from ATI but didn't give ATI a lot of time, so ATI said, "Hey we can't make it that fast you'll have to delay."
Sony went to Nvidia and what did they get? 7800GTX gpu.
What does Microsoft have? A custom made GPU by ATI that has unified shaders. Notice a key term? The 7800GTX and 500 series ATI GPU's didn't have unified shaders, the technology that made 8800GTX obliterate everyone. So technically 360 has a hybrid R600 and it's competing against a G70. Ever see benchmarks of 7800GTX versus the 2900XT? Yeah, kind of a land slide there.
Where the PS3 dominates is in its processing power, CPU side.
GPU only matters as far as development goes.
Sony wanted a customized chip from ATI but didn't give ATI a lot of time, so ATI said, "Hey we can't make it that fast you'll have to delay."
Sony went to Nvidia and what did they get? 7800GTX gpu.
What does Microsoft have? A custom made GPU by ATI that has unified shaders. Notice a key term? The 7800GTX and 500 series ATI GPU's didn't have unified shaders, the technology that made 8800GTX obliterate everyone. So technically 360 has a hybrid R600 and it's competing against a G70. Ever see benchmarks of 7800GTX versus the 2900XT? Yeah, kind of a land slide there.
Where the PS3 dominates is in its processing power, CPU side.