Xbox 360 vs PS3
This is the second part of Gotfrag’s article on the Xbox 360. It is an architectural discussion of the Xbox 360’s hardware and a comparison to the specifications of it’s main direct competitor, the Playstation 3. The Xbox 360 and PS3 are, much like the original Xbox, very similar to a standard desktop PC. Features include a central processing unit, an independent graphics processing unit, and a block of memory for running applications. However, that’s were the similarities more or less end. For starters, the xbox doesn’t use any sort of standard interface between the memory, the GPU, and the CPU. There’s no such thing as pci-e or front side bus in the xbox design. Each part is linked to the other parts through various super-high-bandwidth interfaces that aren’t found in any interface standard in current PC’s.
