16 bit, 32 Bit, 64 Bit, 128 Bit 256 Bit?

[clarkey01]

The playstation 2 emotion engine is 128 bit right ?

The xbox CPU is a celeron which means its 32 bit ?


How come they can compete with each other ?

 

[Fenixgoon]

CPU != graphics card

 

[Pepsi90919]

because there's more to a digital system than how many bits wide the CPU is?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

<Discovery Channel Voice>
And on the left, you see the mindless sheep that compose the majority of the console-buyer market. Observe their salivation as I hold up progressively larger clock speeds and nondenominational bus widths. Fascinating.

- M4H

 

[Linux23]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
because there's more to a digital system than how many bits wide the CPU is?

:thumbsup:

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
<[/b]Discovery Channel Voice>
And on the left, you see the mindless sheep that compose the majority of the console-buyer market. Observe their salivation as I hold up progressively larger clock speeds and nondenominational bus widths. Fascinating.

- M4H

Ooooo, ahhhhhhhh, I thought they were an endangered species. Haven't seen one of them since '91.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
<Discovery Channel Voice>
And on the left, you see the mindless sheep that compose the majority of the console-buyer market. Observe their salivation as I hold up progressively larger clock speeds and nondenominational bus widths. Fascinating.

- M4H

:beer:

 

[sniperruff]

doesn't x-box has some sort of P3 in it?

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
<Discovery Channel Voice>
And on the left, you see the mindless sheep that compose the majority of the console-buyer market. Observe their salivation as I hold up progressively larger clock speeds and nondenominational bus widths. Fascinating.

- M4H

I still like the people who benchmark their video cards by the amount of video ram on it. When I ask what do they have in their computer, they always say something on the lines of 'it's 64MB, but I think I'll upgrade to a 128MB card.'

 

[clarkey01]

the point or rather question i was asking, is why did it go 16, 32, 64, 128 bit but now stops and goes back to 32 bit celerons, 32 bit G5's?

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: clarkey01
the point or rather question i was asking, is why did it go 16, 32, 64, 128 bit but now stops and goes back to 32 bit celerons, 32 bit G5's?

the bit numbers for consoles is usually in refernce to the graphics card not the CPU as mose of the work is done in the 3d accelarotr, both consoles are 128 bit if that helps you any.

if it doesn't please logoff the internet as you have reached the end.

 

[Linux23]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: clarkey01
the point or rather question i was asking, is why did it go 16, 32, 64, 128 bit but now stops and goes back to 32 bit celerons, 32 bit G5's?

the bit numbers for consoles is usually in refernce to the graphics card not the CPU as mose of the work is done in the 3d accelarotr, both consoles are 128 bit if that helps you any.

if it doesn't please logoff the internet as you have reached the end.

:Q

LOL.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
the bit numbers for consoles is usually in refernce to the graphics card not the CPU as mose of the work is done in the 3d accelarotr, both consoles are 128 bit if that helps you any.
if it doesn't please logoff the internet as you have reached the end.

Actually I've always wondered about this, what exactly does the bit number in consoles refer to? CPU register length? memory space? Bus width to system RAM? Colour precision? What exactly is 8-bits wide in the NES?

 

[her209]

instruction length != data length

 

[Wallydraigle]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: clarkey01
the point or rather question i was asking, is why did it go 16, 32, 64, 128 bit but now stops and goes back to 32 bit celerons, 32 bit G5's?

the bit numbers for consoles is usually in refernce to the graphics card not the CPU as mose of the work is done in the 3d accelarotr, both consoles are 128 bit if that helps you any.

if it doesn't please logoff the internet as you have reached the end.

I heard the guy at the end is really hard.

 

[Linux23]

Originally posted by: Wallydraigle

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: clarkey01
the point or rather question i was asking, is why did it go 16, 32, 64, 128 bit but now stops and goes back to 32 bit celerons, 32 bit G5's?

the bit numbers for consoles is usually in refernce to the graphics card not the CPU as mose of the work is done in the 3d accelarotr, both consoles are 128 bit if that helps you any.

if it doesn't please logoff the internet as you have reached the end.

I heard the guy at the end is really hard.

I heard he was the Architect from The Matrix.:Q

 

[Chaotic42]

Someone told me that Microsoft is coming out with a 32i-bit console, but I think it's just imaginary.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: Linux23
I heard he was the Architect from The Matrix.:Q

But with DD size boobs.

 

[jtusa]

Originally posted by: Wallydraigle

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: clarkey01
the point or rather question i was asking, is why did it go 16, 32, 64, 128 bit but now stops and goes back to 32 bit celerons, 32 bit G5's?

the bit numbers for consoles is usually in refernce to the graphics card not the CPU as mose of the work is done in the 3d accelarotr, both consoles are 128 bit if that helps you any.

if it doesn't please logoff the internet as you have reached the end.

I heard the guy at the end is really hard.

Proof that pr0n is the internet.

 

[blurredvision]

Consoles aren't really measured by *-bits anymore, because it really doesn't apply. Had this arguement with a new guy at work not too long ago, and he keeps saying he can't wait to see the 512-bit consoles. I told him that basically, consoles weren't measured in power by bits anymore since the Nintendo 64. I may have heard some tidbits about the Dreamcast being 128-bit, but that soon died down.

Consoles are a lot more complex these days, with lots of different pieces doing different parts of the puzzle. With each piece varying in strength and function, you can't simply pigeon-hole it to one term anymore. So now, we compare consoles with their generation competition.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: clarkey01
The playstation 2 emotion engine is 128 bit right ?

The xbox CPU is a celeron which means its 32 bit ?


How come they can compete with each other ?

becuase the people who write the code for each have one set piece of hardware to work on, not like the pc market that encompasses DX5 up to 9c!

becuase theres one bit of hardware and everyone who buys one gets the same, they can optimize like crazy wihtout fear of being called cheaters by other parties.

the PS2 is just wierd though 128bit cpu @ 300Mhz, then a 16pipe line emotion engine @ 150Mhz fed by 4mb of DRAM on a 2560bit bus (not a typo) cant really perform any kind of AA or AF, but works very well if u cram it full of data. its just a vector processor isnt it?

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: sniperruff
doesn't x-box has some sort of P3 in it?

i think its a coppermine PIII with half the cache, so in esscence its a celeron

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: blurredvision
Consoles aren't really measured by *-bits anymore, because it really doesn't apply. Had this arguement with a new guy at work not too long ago, and he keeps saying he can't wait to see the 512-bit consoles. I told him that basically, consoles weren't measured in power by bits anymore since the Nintendo 64. I may have heard some tidbits about the Dreamcast being 128-bit, but that soon died down.

Consoles are a lot more complex these days, with lots of different pieces doing different parts of the puzzle. With each piece varying in strength and function, you can't simply pigeon-hole it to one term anymore. So now, we compare consoles with their generation competition.

the dream cast was a phake, they said 128bits, in reality it was 2 64bits wired together i think, not a true 128bit

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
<Discovery Channel Voice>
And on the left, you see the mindless sheep that compose the majority of the console-buyer market. Observe their salivation as I hold up progressively larger clock speeds and nondenominational bus widths. Fascinating.

- M4H

sigged

 

[clarkey01]

Originally posted by: blurredvision
Consoles aren't really measured by *-bits anymore, because it really doesn't apply. Had this arguement with a new guy at work not too long ago, and he keeps saying he can't wait to see the 512-bit consoles. I told him that basically, consoles weren't measured in power by bits anymore since the Nintendo 64. I may have heard some tidbits about the Dreamcast being 128-bit, but that soon died down.

Consoles are a lot more complex these days, with lots of different pieces doing different parts of the puzzle. With each piece varying in strength and function, you can't simply pigeon-hole it to one term anymore. So now, we compare consoles with their generation competition.

Thanks, Its nice to get an asnwer and not be insulted, cheers.