PS3′s Cell three times more powerful as the Xbox 360 processor?

7 November 2006

Posted by:Ferry

Cell Processor This summer Sony created a training website for Canadian Wal Mart employees. The access codes got leaked when a store visitor saw a manager put up internal documents around the store.

After logging in, Sony marketing spin quotes can be found while employees read, learn & test their PS3 knowledge. Here’s the real gem:

“Welcome to your PS3 Retail Online Training. We trust that you will find the following information valuable and assist you in understanding and explaining PS3 Technology to your customers and staff. … The Cell Processor is essentially as powerful as 3 Xbox 360 CPUâ€™s or 35 PlayStationÂ® 2 CPUâ€™s”

And you wonder why store clerks so seldom know what they are talking about? How in the world is “The Cell is actually 7 SPUâ€™s (Synthetic Processing Units) each running at 3.2 GHZ” supposed to inform customers? Here’s a screenshot (click to enlarge) of one of the tests where employees can win prizes if they get all the answers right.

Oh and by the way, most developers say that the horsepower inside both the Xbox 360 and PS3 will be comparable a few years from now as it’s all about what they can get out of their processors to use in-game. That’s a good thing and also why Gears of War look prettier in graphical detail than any PS3 launch games shown so far.

A direct quote from Silicon Knights president Denis Dyack says: “The 360 and the PS3 are equal in power in my eyes,” Dyack says. “Maybe the PS3 has more processing power. The 360 has more available memory. It’s pretty much a net, net. The public perception of the PS3 was that it was much more powerful. To developers, they look even.“

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Marco

this fanboyism shwag has to stop, i have the 360, i plan 2 buy the wii, the only reason im not buying a ps3 is because its impossible 2 find, and i dont wanna spend 800 dollars on a video gaming system when i can put in a new subwoofer in my car. u know..something that REAL LIFE has to offer and not video games lol….dont be stupid kids, its nice that you wanna buy a ps3, power 2 u, but dont say its better til its released.
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Jack

How is it that the fan boys take no notice of what professonal developers say?
The are roughly the same, its about the games…Who knows, maybe the Wii will be more fun than Halo 3, but lets see.

Enought of I know this and I know that. You don’t unless you develop Unreal or called EA.
PS3 XBOX360 developer

Thanks guys, great read ROTFL ))

p.s: interestingly none of the well informed noticed, that the PS3 has easily twice the memory bandwidth…
Marco

yeah but if everyone here remembers correctly. when the ps2 was about to come out, sony had stated that it would be able to do toy story graphics…..that was a lie lol so who noes what they say and what will actually be truth with the ps3
James

I don’t know much in detail about SPU’s but must admit that the first gen round of PS3 games look better than the first gen 360 games (Remember Quake, Ridge Racer and PD Zero? – not all that for me graphically). Wether its because the 360 was rushed or the PS3′s more powerfull, I dont know. I have a 360 and for now I’m happy with it, (could do with more action adventure games though) but I wont be spending Â£500 on a PS3 come March in the UK. The real battle starts Xmas 07… When both consoles are at optimum pricing and developers get to grips with the hardware.
Terrence B

go to the Link…it has already been proven…the 360 is more powerful than the PS3…IGN has said it and it is over..Both systems will be excellent IMO. It is just a matter of time before halo 3 comes out and to what it did to the ps2 back in the day.
go to the link
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/617/617951p1.html
James

Damn…
http://none xboxfanboi

Halo did nothing to the PS2 as far as I know it is still a viable system unlike that over sized black non backwards compatible piece of cr*p the x box. Sorry you wasted your money on a 360 I know it stings a little but face the facts. PS3 is a much better console. Trade it in before it’s too late.
Joe

Yeah xbox is gonna say that tard they said it back in 2005. Ok and the 8 there is 8 one is set for redun. And it has one cpu i believe not 100% they havnt even told half the specs yet. But each can be used for many things because when u play a game your gpu has to do a total of maybe 5 diff tasks. Lighting, Shading, Texture, Res and Polys. Pretty much. Ok now they have a gpu which runs at 540mhz or somthing crazy. So that gets handeld now the spus help with those maybe 2 or three will do that and the rest can do any thing els one can do phys one can do enemy ai and maybe the other could do friendly ai. Idk how they will break them up in future but the ps3 has better tech it came out more then a year after the xbox. So give it up. And go to game spot to get your info.