PSP2 Will Pack More Horses Than Xbox 360

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1. The 512MB on the Xbox 360 is 256-bit GDDR3. No mobile ram will have the bandwidth even close

2. The 500Mhz ATI Xenos GPU with 10MB eDRAM is far beyond any gpu in any mobile device. It is a 256-bit unified shader architecture, with a 4 Gigapixel fill rate. Compare that to a modern GPU in a phone (ex. PowerVR SGX found in Iphone 4/Android) with a 400 MegaPixel fillrate. I am sorry but come back in three years and you might find something close in a mobie product.

3. The 45nm 64-bit 3-core (6 logical) PowerPC 3.2GHz 32/32KB L1, 1MB L2 Cache CPU, 21GB/s FSB, 96GFLOPS peak performance in the Xbox 360. Tell me one mobile CPU, Motherboard combination that could come close to this?
 
hey dude you forgot about the resolution man. . we only play in 4.3 inches LCD not in huge cinema display man. .

maybe the PSP2 not required as a same spec as XBOX 360 have, to run a same quality what XBOX 360 have. . .
 
[citation][nom]dalethepcman[/nom]Desktop CPU's run x86 code. The Xenos cpu has a much smaller instruction set as its required to perform a much smaller set of tasks. It would be difficult to get an apples to apples comparison, but the I7 980XE performs at 107 gflops on x86, xbox 90gflops on risc x64.[/citation]
What the hell is "risc x64"??? No wait, I'll answer for you: there is no such thing. xbox runs a PowerPC CPU, just like pre-2006 Mac's.
 
Perhaps the comparison was taken out of context or not completed. It might make more sense if the PSP2 had more computational power per watt than the XBOX360 (gflops/watt, for instance). In terms of raw performance, it is doubtful for the power reasons others have stated. Perhaps, though, "more powerful" means including "1GB of RAM" instead of the 512MB that shipped on older Elites.
 
while I dont believe it will be more powerfull then the 360 with new tech is could get just as good or better game play/quality as the 360 in a small handheld.
The PSP looks as good if not better then the SP2 and its 1/4th the size so IMO its better.
I can see them using a dual core Atom CPU with the Tegra2 GPU , this would be a powerfull handheld, no clue on game size and how that would all work out.
 
[citation][nom]darkstar782[/nom]I love the way they say "MORE RAM THAN THE 360 THAT ONLY HAS 512", failing to point out that the PS3 struggles along with 256....[/citation]
The PS3 has 256MB of main memory an 256MB of video memory. The Xbox360 has 512MB but shares that memory with all systems.

The advantage to the xbox360 is that when needed the GPU can use more than 256MB, or less depending on the needs.

The advantage of the PS3 is that the main memory is quite faster than the one on the xbox360.
 
[citation][nom]madogre[/nom]while I dont believe it will be more powerfull then the 360 with new tech is could get just as good or better game play/quality as the 360 in a small handheld.The PSP looks as good if not better then the SP2 and its 1/4th the size so IMO its better. I can see them using a dual core Atom CPU with the Tegra2 GPU , this would be a powerfull handheld, no clue on game size and how that would all work out.[/citation]
The Atom consumes too much power for a device this small. This would mean that the psp2 would have a terrible autonomy.
 
Come on people don´t be closed mind, We clearly have seen mobile gaming devices with more or equal performance than previous generation consoles. Maybe they went too far saying this kind of power will be available on the next psp2, unless they are releasing this on the next couple of years 😉.
 
[citation][nom]IMAC[/nom]Come on people don´t be closed mind, We clearly have seen mobile gaming devices with more or equal performance than previous generation consoles. Maybe they went too far saying this kind of power will be available on the next psp2, unless they are releasing this on the next couple of years .[/citation]

It's easy to believe that a handheld can keep up with a 5 year old console, however we do have the rare opportunity right now to compare the Xbox 360 (3 cores, 6 threads, 3.2ghz, 96Gflops) with the latest low energy platforms (think sub 1ghz atoms) and wonder what Sony are doing if the claim that forms the title of this article is true...
 
[citation][nom]NuclearShadow[/nom]While I wouldn't say its impossible to make a handheld that could exceed the 360 specs I certainly don't think we will be seeing such within the next generation of handhelds. In fact this is nothing more than a silly rumor and there is no reason to take it seriously.Why is such rumors and speculation even making it to be news here?[/citation]Thank you. It should have a big *RAMPANT SPECULATION* tag in both the article AND the headline.
[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]The PS3 has 256MB of main memory an 256MB of video memory. The Xbox360 has 512MB but shares that memory with all systems.The advantage to the xbox360 is that when needed the GPU can use more than 256MB, or less depending on the needs.The advantage of the PS3 is that the main memory is quite faster than the one on the xbox360.[/citation]The PS3's main memory is only a bit faster than the 360's memory, and the PS3's video memory is even a bit slower than the 360's memory. So there's no really clear advantage for the PS3 regarding memory bandwidth, and the 360's memory gives developers a lot more flexibility. Also, the eDRAM on the 360 has a crapton of bandwidth, which developers can take advantage of to do stuff like very inexpensive AA.

Anyway, the PSP2 is not going to have the kind of horsepower the PS3 and 360 have. Not unless they seriously delay it. 😀
 
Also have to remember $ony was the one that climed the PS3 was 1000x more powerful than the PS2 Emotion chip long before the PS3 release, where in reality it was only around 70+. $ony is more well known to blow a lot of hot air out of their a** than giving us the products they claim.
 
[citation][nom]AlexTheBlue[/nom]The PS3's main memory is only a bit faster than the 360's memory, and the PS3's video memory is even a bit slower than the 360's memory.[/citation] The Video Memory of the PS3 has exactly the memory bandwidth than the xbox360, 22,4GB/s. The main memory of the PS3 has a memory bandwidth of 25,6GB/s, that's almost 15% faster than the xbox360. But like I said, having the system sharing ram with the cpu and gpu has it's advantages.

[citation][nom]AlexTheBlue[/nom]Anyway, the PSP2 is not going to have the kind of horsepower the PS3 and 360 have. Not unless they seriously delay it. 😀[/citation]Agreed. Like the PSP that had the power between the PS1 and PS2, the PSP2 power will almost surelly be between the PS2 and the PS3.
 
"... the PSP2 will pack more processing power than Microsoft's current Xbox 360..."

"... hardware specs that will supposedly rival the Xbox 360 console in terms of pure processing."

So which one is it? Rival? Or outperform? There's nothing here that says what kind of CPU it uses, and citing clock speed alone doesn't tell much about processing power. All rumors. Is Tom's Guide becoming another Fudzilla? Don't, because their news are all crap written by lame wannabes.

Fail.
 
just because it has more RAM it does not make it faster. so what's the cpu speed?...if it has the same specs as the phone then 1ghz is much slower than 3.2ghz
 
Well, the RAM amount is obvious... 512 is terrible! They should just put the games on SSD drives. 8GB SD cards can be fast enough and are getting cheaper and cheaper everyday. Processor wise as many have said before me is very doubtful...unless the pack a quad in there. But like someone said already, at a lower res, you wouldn't need as much processing power to make games look just as good. They could pack a dual core atom and make games look amazing. Although I want to hear some info on the GPU. And if this thing runs Android, I'm all over it. I'd get rid of my phone in a heartbeat!
 
Yeah, there's a hell of a lot more to performance than clockspeed and amount of RAM. If the RAM of the 360 is running at 667mhz DDR2 and the RAM of this PSP2 is running at 667mhz DDR, it doesn't really matter if they are running at the same clock speed, they won't have nearly the same performance.

The same is true of CPU's. You could overclock a dual core Pentium to 3ghz and not come anywhere close to the performance of an i5 dual core running at the same clock speed.
 
well press in a 8cell litium battery and youll get good life time then use 2 interlan ssd sticks for like 16gig and yous mem stick like devise for games they can easely hold up to 16 gig or as low as 1gig chuld cower it but why did they not insert the mobile in the psp2 might not get it then id like the psp2 to also include the phone
 
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