Lol, so a game magazine said three 3 Ghz processors are the same as one 9 Ghz?I was reading a game magazine in which it said the XBOX360 had three processors. Each working at 3 ghz for a total of 9 Ghz.
Now this all sounded odd to me.
Does the XBOX 360 really have that much processor power?
the GPU is the processor on a video cardIs that just for the CPU, or does that include the GPU?
I know, I was wondering if by "three processors" they meant the CPU, the GPU and one other chip (possibly a second CPU).the GPU is the processor on a video card
That's what I thought, so something definitely doesn't make sense there.gpu's arent even to the 1ghz area yet,
Well obviously a computer that can in fact cost you almost 10x times more than an xbox is going to be way superior.I've read a comparison on Gamespot between the graphics of the X360-version of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and the PC-version of the same game. They tested the game on a low-end PC, a 'medium' one, and a high-end PC, and the X360-version proved to have slightly better graphics than the 'medium' PC, but notably less impressive graphs than the high-end machine.
The test was done somewhere between 6 and 12 months ago, I think.
The chips are custom designed to be good for gaming and nothing else. They are horrid when it comes to general computing tasks. They aren't Mac chips either, the POWER architecture covers a lot of areas(I bet most people on this forum have a car with at least 3 POWER chips). An Xbox couldn't run OS X/9.So Microsoft's XBox 360 is running on Mac chips (which were originally designed by IBM)? That's freaky.
Does anyone have a rough comparison - about what would the equivalent PC?