Comparison PS3 vs 360, Ridgeracer 7

[FudgeNuggets]

Okay, the 360 version looks quite a bit better and has more details in the graphics and I'm going to present two sides as to why this may be so as to make this like Fox news, "fair and balanced".

In favour of 360: The 360 has a more powerful GPU and more RAM thus they can load more textures and have more detail.


In favour of the PS3: This is a launch game, the developers got their dev-kits late and they haven't had the time nor experience programming the game as they have had with the 360.

edit: I just ran the site through BABEL-FISH and it is Ridge Racer 6 at launch for the 360 vs Ridge Racer 7 at launch for the PS3, just the same level. I change my opionion thus, to it HAS to be the fact that the 360 has more RAM and a more powerful GPU as programming does no longer come into play.

Conclusion: Draw your own, but here's the screenies:

http://dreamgamers.blogcindario.com/2006/11/00018-rr-6-xbox-360-versus-rr-7-ps3.html

 

[RedDragonXXX]

I was watching Tony Hawk Project 8 comparision between the two over at gametrailers.com and it was really hard to tell difference between the two.

For now I think that 360 has best graphics out of all platforms including PC, cause I have yet to see anything that looks as good as Gears of War.

 

[OC Noob]

This applies here too:

I stole this from Kenny K at gamersreports.com:

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QUOTE(optaviusx @ Nov 1 2006, 02:41 PM)

The 360 has more ram to work with than the PS3.

The ps3 uses its 256MB of GDDR3 for textures (which is the ram for rsx) Its possible for RSX to texture from XDR, but it would need to travel over the cell's flexio and as a result there is a penalty for texturing from XDR. Or they could use the XDR sorta like a fast cache and stream it all in.

The ps3's os reserves 32MB of ram from the GDDR3 ram and 64MB from the XDR. The 360's os only takes away 32MB of ram from the unified 512MB GDDR memory. Not only that the 360 uses memory much more efficiently than the ps3. For example for a 720p resolution with 4XFSAA the ps3 would require to use 28MB of ram. The 360 accomplishes this with just 16MB a lot of valuable memory being saved there.

Many other memory saving features I wont bother going into right now, but the 360 has more RAM to work with than the PS3 no matter how we look at it.

your close optivious on some of your numbers. the OS for the ps3 actually takes up a little bit more then 96MB of memory, i cant go into specifics because of restrictions but trust me its a bit higher.

also on the 360 the 32MB quote is including the sound from games, not just the OS. the OS for the 360 only takes a little less then 16MB of memory.

here is the OS breakdown for the two systems to put it all together:

PS3:
-1 SPE used for OS 24/7
-1 SPE on stand-by, can be taken over by OS at any moment (game code will NOT run to this SPE)
-96+ MB of memory used by OS
-leaves 1 thread on PPE and 5 SPEs for game development code and execution.

360:
-.5%-2% of the second thread on cores 1 and 2 reserved for OS (cores are labeled core0, core1, and core2 in game development.)
-16MB of memory reserved for OS

to clarify, the OS in these systems includes the dash, guide, menues, OS kernal, and such.

so in total we have a little less then 416MB of memory in the ps3 and in the 360 around 496MB of memory; yes this DOES make a difference. Both systems are capable of handling 6 hardware threads at a time, this does not mean that it can not handle more then 6 software threads though.

as for the question of accessing the XDR memory for RSX, it can be done but its so bottlenecked and not efficient enough to be used in real world programming.

dev quotes on the memory differences:

QUOTE
"Further to the Edge comments this month about how much better Call Of Duty 3 looks on 360 in comparison to the PS3 version, I noticed this in GamesTM this month On Rainbow Six Vegas.....

'' .....a chat with the Ubisoft development team shed a little light on he matter."All I'm able to say is that we're looking to ship on PS3 as well but we're not having specific content.....we're developing with 360 as our main development platform and porting to PS3 means that there's less memory available for us to use, but we're trying to minimise any drop in quality"..Such comments sugget that the gap in performance between Playstation3 and Xbox 360 is nowhere near as powerful as some would like us to believe and that the console may even be less able than Microsoft's..."

They also go on to say that only the 360 version will feature the face mapping technolgy and that their are no plans for PS3/PSP linkage or to use the sixaxis tilt technology."



http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=10742

QUOTE
GI: What do you like about working on the PS3? How about the Xbox 360? Will there be any major differences between the two versions?

Högdahl: So far the two versions look pretty much the same – quite unsurprisingly, since we use the same shader source code and content for both platforms. They will be identical gameplay-wise. There will only be very minor cosmetic differences, such as the PS3 will have better quality video for the in-game TVs and on the Xbox 360 we have a bit more room for textures in memory.

http://www.gameinformer.com/Magazine...1042.51750.htm

hope this answers your question. if you would like to know anything else please ask and i will answer what i could without getting any associate or myself in trouble "

 

[Shell]

Soo... the 360 wins.
And I won a bet, $20.
Thanks Sony.

But damn, this is just pathetic, a $599 console, and a year newer... and whadaya know, Sony dropped an F-Bomb on every one of their feeble fans that must be in Denial after seeing all of this.

When I bought a 360, I thought I would regret it because I was expecting it to be pwned by the "Revolution" and the PS3.

So may this result in Nintendo and Microsoft becomeing the two dominant console producers?
Perhaps.
IMO, yes.

 

[NOThelagak]

hey fudge, ummm.. i think your takin your sony hate too far. its affecting your vision. that 360 screen looks like its running at a diff resolution. dont get me wrong, i own a 360 and i love it. and i share your ps3 hatered, but the ps3 screen did look better. i really doubt those two screens were shot off of the same monitor.

 

[mage_x]

hey fudge, ummm.. i think your takin your sony hate too far. its affecting your vision. that 360 screen looks like its running at a diff resolution. dont get me wrong, i own a 360 and i love it. and i share your ps3 hatered, but the ps3 screen did look better. i really doubt those two screens were shot off of the same monitor.

It doesn't matter what monitor it's on when there's missing textures (compared to the 360 ver.) and the water is nearly a flat, blue plain.

 

[NOThelagak]

heck heres a comparison gif i made:

i dunno now, they look different, but im not sure which one is "better"



edit: i dunno if im allowed to post gifs, so if not, sorry.

 

[darthdana]

well its apparent the driver in both games suck!!!

I will let you know if it plays different Friday

 

[Hardin]

I think the water in the 360 version looks better.

 

[RedDragonXXX]

Both of these consoles have their ups and downs and let's not forget that this is the first batch of games for PS3.

 

[Ebola]

Lets wait and see if the PS3 overheats and burns down anyone's house.

I like my Final Fantasy and Anime styled RPGs so I'll probably buy a PS3.