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Originally Posted by Heclo

lets get something clear: the xbox360 does not have a higher main memory bandwith than the ps3, and u cant just add up all the memory bandwith's of a system and say: "this is the systems total memory performance"

the xbox360 has 512MB of GDDR3 memory running at 700Mhz, producing a bandwith of 22.4GB/s
it then has a graphics "cache" of 10MB EDRAM producing 256GB/s
this smallsize memory will mainly be used to store shaderoperations, frametables ect. NOT textures, which is the data that takes up most memory, and bandwith, they will be stored in the main memory, which have a bandwith of 22.4GB/s as i stated before.

the ps3 has 256MB of XDR ram running synchronized with the cell eg. 3.2Ghz, though on the high clock speed, sony states that it only produces a bandwith of 25.6GB/s
it then haves 256MB GDDR3 ram running at 700Mhz which produces (you've guessed it already ) 22.4GB/s, as dedicated video ram. this mean's it will be used as storage for texture, shader, vertex and other operations.

all this add's up to, that the xbox360 will have a slight advantage over ps3 bandwith wise, because of its capability of almost instant shader/vertex operations, but only slight advantage, i think about 10-15%

and before you flame me to death, research my claims, they are taken directly from ms/sony statements

EDIT: all this said i still think xbox360 is going to be the best console, because of its more traditional architekture, maybe in 5 years from now, when we sum up all the games from each console, the ps3 might have the most beautiful game of all the games, but the xbox360 will have a higher number of beautiful games (did that make sense?)

Wait, let's get something clear here first. You said in the first sentence that the Xbox360 does NOT have a higher main memory bandwidth than ps3, then near the end, you say it has a slight advantage bandwidth-wise.

Which is it?