new generation console question

[Datrix]

New supposedly real 360 specifications.

360 HW:
1. Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD
2. All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
3. Customizable face plates to change appearance
4. 3 USB 2.0 ports
5. Support for 4 wireless controllers
6. Detachable 20GB drive
7. Wi-Fi ready

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
- 3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each
- 2 hardware threads per core
- 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core
- 1 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance
- 9 billion dots per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor
- 500 MNz
- 10 MB embedded DRAM
- 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines
- unified shader architecture

Memory
-512 MB GDDR3 RAM
- 700 MNz DDR

Memory Bandwidth
- 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
- 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
- 21.6 GB/s frontside bus

Audio
- Mulitchannel surround sond output
- Supports 48khz 16-bit audio
- 320 independent decompression channels
- 32 bit processing
- 256+ audio channels

 

[Sir Phoenixx]

Also in benchmarks the p4 3.6 EE is faster then the athlon fx-55.

3d Mark:
http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q4/athlon64-fx55/3dmark.gif
http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q4/athlon64-fx55/3dmark-cpu.gif
http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q4/athlon64-fx55/3dmark-cpu1.gif
http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q4/athlon64-fx55/3dmark-cpu2.gif

Only one shows a pentium higher then the FX55, and that wasn't a P4 Extreme Edition.

 

[Smack500]

Yea a freind told me the newest p4 ee was faster, I just checked it out seems your right. Intel needs to create a new core.

Also I hope people know that the xbox will not have three 3.2 ghz cpus.

 

[Asus]

Yeah, those consoles won't have higher than 3GHz CPU speeds. Even the G5 which is a Power PC (IBM) CPU uses some form of water cooling on their 2.5GHz models.

The new consoles (and new PCs) are going more towards parallelism and less toward GHz because of heat. Although check out the Power Consumption of AMD's desktop dual core chip. Takes less power to run that sucker at full load even over Intel's single core chip at Idle. ouch

A lot of stuff you hear about Sony's new Cell design are not what it will be right when it is first used with the PS3 but rather what they are aiming for with future implementations of Cell. Keep that in mind.