Breaking Down the Tech Behind Next-Gen Consoles

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At this past E3, both Sony and Microsoft disclosed quite a bit of technical information regarding their next-gen consoles, giving us a more accurate picture of how powerful these new machines will be. Still, the casual gamer probably doesn't understand what's so important 300 million transistors or what the benefits are of a multi-core processor. Luckily, sites around the web have posted their own in-depth technical analyses of these consoles.

For starters, Ars Technica has two separate pieces taking a look inside the Xbox 360. The first article focuses on the procedural synthesis techniques, or "making optimal use of system bandwidth and main memory by dynamically generating lower-level geometry data from statically stored higher-level scene data." Their second article dives deep into the multi-core processor and how it relates to the topic of the first piece.

Tackling the PlayStation 3 is Real Tech News who explain what's so special about the vaunted Cell processor and how it's quite possible that it can be found in a lot of your home entertainment devices and not just the PS3. As for the PS3's RSX graphics processor, developed by nVidia, not much has been revealed but nVidia is set to talk about all their upcoming chips on Tuesday of next week, so we should know more then.

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