Pre E3 2005: Xbox Vs Xbox 360

360 Feature | We pit the consoles against each other to demonstrate the differences.

There is no doubt within the gaming industry that the Xbox is the most powerful current gaming machine on the market, All of this is about to change though, with the Xbox 360, when it is released next year it will be the most powerful console on the market. We've included the official spec sheet for both the Xbox and the Xbox 360, some of the results are very interesting. The Xbox is in green and the Xbox 360 is in silver.

CPU:
Intel 733MHz Pentium III; one hardware thread
Custom-designed IBM PowerPC-based CPU with 3 Symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each; 2 hardware threads per core and 6 hardware threads total

CPU Floating Point Performance:
1.466 GFLOPS
115.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor:
233 MHz custom-designed chip, developed by Microsoft and nVidia
500 MHz custom-designed chip, developed by Microsoft and ATI

Total Memory:
64MB
512MB

Memory Bandwidth:
Main Memory: 6.4GB/sec
EDRAM rendering memory: N/A
Front Side Bus: 1 GB/s
Main Memory: 22.4GB/sec
EDRAM rendering memory: 256GB/sec
Front Side Bus: 21.6 GB/sec

Polygon Performance:
116.5 M/sec
500 M/sec

Simultaneous Textures
4
16

Pixel Fill Rate:
3.7G sec
16 G Sec

Compressed Textures:
Yes (6:1)
Yes, DXT1-5 + other more special purpose (including normal compression)

Built In Hard Disk?
Yes, 8 Gig
Yes, 20 Gig, Detachable Hard-Disk

I/O
Game controller x4, Ethernet (10/100)
Wireless Game controller x4, 3 USB 2.0 ports, 2 memory unit slots

DVD Movie Playback:
Remote Control Needed
Yes, built in progressive scan

Pretty powerful hey? PALGN will have more information on the XBox 360 as it becomes available.

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6 Comments

Hyperworm

7 years ago

Good idea for an article. That was useful.

Noogle

7 years ago

Can someone clear this up for me: how can it be an Intel CPU with a x86 style clock speed when it's a RISC processor? Because if that's the CPU speed, it's a bit low - consider that the 360 has to last at least 4 years as a gaming machine.

LordPaludis

7 years ago

Noogle wrote

it doesn't have to run anything in the background like a PC does. Typically the CPU and RAM specs of consoles are lower than PC's for this reason.

And how can you say that a processor with 3 3.2ghz cores is slow? The current dual-core pentiums are only 3.2ghz..

Hyperworm

7 years ago

Noogle wrote

What LordPaludis says is right, but you raise an interesting point in mentioning how long it has to last.
If Xbox 360 doesn't go well and ends up getting outsold by Revolution and PS3, Microsoft has two options. Wait out a long period of time until the other companies decide it's time to move the next generation on, incurring large losses in the meantime; or, alternatively, launch earlier than the competition again, setting themselves up for the same situation in the future (or maybe people just won't buy it next time). Could be trouble...

Shujjah

6 years ago

Hyperworm wrote

Good idea for an article. That was useful.

HE yo man even now xbox is way better than xbox 360

themak

6 years ago

Noogle wrote

Well you have to appreciate the bloat in modern computers, they all take too much ram for pretty junk and anti-virus. The PPC chip in the XBOX360 is the absolte maximun that can be made at the moment, it also has 6 hardware threads. What the XBOX360 might lack in power (very little) it will make up for in efficiency, it will also force developers to look at programming their games differently as to take advantage of the multi cored CPUs in consoles. This alone will take quite a while to "rev-up" and get up to speed with tri-cored programming.

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