Comments on: PS3 System Uses 3x More Memory Than Xbox 360

By: guest

guest — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:41:09 +0000

Thats why the xbox has 1/10th the amount of user changeable options and that the XBL menu system almost always lag while using a modern game,Not that the ps3 menus don’t lag in game, but it’s only a fraction of a second, where as commonly on XBL you see 2-3 second slowdowns when opening the guide pop up. My point is it doesn’t really matter how much ram it’s using, it’s about how efficient it runs the code in use.

By: prankstare

prankstare — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 04:49:00 +0000

I don’t get it now, could somebody explain to me one thing?

Well, if Xbox 360 has more available memory for graphics than does the PS3, and the latter has allegdly a much faster CPU, then how come most mutiplatform games appear to have more “moving” objects on screen for the PS3 version? Plus, it is a fact that you can notice a lot of fade-in/fade-out objects appearing on Xbox 360, but I am not sure if that’s a memory or a CPU problem.

By: Koizumi is a Loser!

Koizumi is a Loser! — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:08:58 +0000

WTH are you on about Koizumi, your point of view is incredibly warped. Especially as M$ make OS’s that DON’T work! Apple is vastly superior in that department on home computers, and Sony’s XMB is a mile ahead of Xbox’s awful NXE.

And yes, you resurrected a thread almost year old, so I am too!

By: webterractive

webterractive — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:01:42 +0000

That’s fine Philip but the artical is not about speed of the memory but the footprint in memory that the system leaves. It’s like running a computer with 512MBs of SDRAM @133Mhz and having 80% of it free, vs a a 1024MBs of 800Mhz DDR2 with only 2% free, the 512 system will run much better. I hate Xbox because it breaks so easily without dropping in it and my PS3 is an awsome Bluray player, though some games are good too.

By: Koizumi

Koizumi — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:40:42 +0000

It’s no brainer that xbox gets the upper hand on this issue since that’s what they do, make OS’s work. From my point of view xbox is like a truck traveling through a highway at speedlimit (big memory) and PS3 is Van going slightly over the speedlimit (limited memory but faster)

By: Stumbows

Stumbows — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:30:51 +0000

Phillip is right the XDR memory is running at 3.2Ghz as opposed to Xbox360 RAM running 700Mhz.

Although the PS3 GDDR3 memory runs at this speed too the system memory is much faster.

I would be dubious as to whether the code was any good for the x360 OS as in the past Microsoft have tried to take shortcuts with the Palm PCs and cutting down windows which makes it an extremely inefficient piece of tech.

By: Iain7

Iain7 — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:43:14 +0000

I have installed linux on my ps3 which sits on top of the game os. I am sure most of the game os “calls” are cache from the hard drive, then flushed out of memory. The game os on the xbox needs a different type of memory. As it does not need a hdd. I think this story has been made up.

By: Philip

Philip — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:23:29 +0000

Uhh, ps3 has better ram than 360.
360 has 512 ram for both cpu and gpu.
Ps3 has 256 for cpu (4,5 times as fast as 260 ram) and 256 ram for gpu.
The article is wrong so it can better get removed.
Sorry for my bad English.

By: technabob

technabob — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:38:08 +0000

I’m not saying that Ozymandias is necessarily 100% unbiased, that’s why I mentioned that he works for Microsoft.

That said, if you have any link(s) to those developers who have “confirmed” the 64MB usage, I’m sure my readers would be interested to see those.

P.S. Even if that’s the case, 64MB usage is still 2X as much as the 360 uses, and the user experience on the 360 is just that much easier to use and better integrated.

By: Extinction

Extinction — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:37:48 +0000

“They plan to have a “Blade” like pane that can appear out of the right hand side of the screen for viewing and participating in activities that the OS enables. ”

Can’t help noticing but your source was wrong.

Not only that, but multiple devs have confirmed PS3s OS uses 64 MB in TOTAL