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Link: Microsoft’s Xbox 360 & Sony’s PlayStation 3 - Poor CPU Performance

June 30th, 2005 at 8:50am

AnandTech has an interesting article on Poor CPU Performance of next generation game consoles. The good news is that it’s more powerful than current consoles, but the bad news is that it isn’t much more powerful. The PowerPC chips that Sony and Microsoft are using seem to be little better than double the performance of the 2000 models. On the plus side, the new revisions contain significantly better GPUs and more RAM, so this is definitely going to be an improvement.

I’m not sure how much of a downside this really is. I mean, how much power do you need in a CPU for games? Haven’t we got enough already? It seems the GPU would be the bottleneck in most games.

If you you know any specifics about the Nintendo Revolution’s processor (I know it’s an IBM PowerPC “Broadway,” but I have no idea what the technical specs for the Broadway are), let me know! I’m curious how it rates compared to the XBox 360 and PS3.

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One Response to “Link: Microsoft’s Xbox 360 & Sony’s PlayStation 3 - Poor CPU Performance”

  1. mx Says:
    July 6th, 2005 at 12:46 pm

    A few of the rumours:

    “… the console will boast four 2.5 GHz IBM G5 Custom cores, with 128 KB of level 1 cache and a 512 KB shared level 2 cache”

    And …

    “The specifications [...] suggest that the system will be powered by two 1.8Ghz IBM PowerPC G5 processors, …”

    Wikipedia (of course) has a good summary of the rumours and current specs.

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