Xbox 360 vs PS3

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Xbox 360 vs PS3 - Which is the Best Game Console

Xbox 360 and PS3 are the latest game consoles on the market today with cutting edge video features. Compare the technical specs between Xbox360 and PS3 and decide which game console is the best choice for your gaming needs.

Xbox 360 vs PS3 - CPU and GPU Technical Specs

Xbox 360 Vs PS3 CPU Specs

Xbox360:
- Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
- Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
- Two hardware threads per core; six hardware threads total
- VMX-128 vector unit per core; three total
- 128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
- 1 MB L2 cache
- 9.6 billion dot product operations per second

PS3:
- Cell Processor PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
- 1 VMX vector unit per core
- 512KB L2 cache
- 7 x SPE @3.2GHz
- 7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
- 7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
- 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
- total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

Xbox 360 Vs PS3 GPU Specs

Xbox360:
- Custom ATI Graphics Processor
- 10 MB of embedded DRAM
- 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines
- Unified shader architecture

PS3:
- RSX @550MHz
- 1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance

Lots of technical technical jargons here and it is difficult to determine a winner.

Xbox 360 vs PS3 - Memory Technical Specs

Xbox 360 Vs PS3 Memory Specs

Xbox360:
- 512 MB of 700 MHz GDDR3 RAM
- Unified memory architecture

PS3:
RAM - 256 MB XDR Running at Clock speed 3.2 GHz
VRAM - 256 MB GDDR3 running at Clock speed 700 MHz

Xbox 360 Vs PS3 Memory Bandwidth Specs

Xbox 360:
- 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
- 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
- 21.6 GB/s front-side bus

PS3:
Main 25.6 GB/s
VRAM 22.4 GB/s

Both Xbox360 and PS3 has the same amount of 512MB total memory

Xbox 360 vs PS3 - I/O Technical Specs

Xbox 360 Vs PS3 Disk Media Specs

Xbox360:
Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD

PS3:
CD PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD, DualDisc, DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)
DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
Blu-ray Disc: PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE

PS3 is a clear winner here over Xbox360 because of the support it has for Blu-ray Disc. Basically, you get yourself a free Blu-ray Disc player with your PS3.