Hardware utilization: PC vs console question

[almighty]

Capom once said that 360's Xenos CPU is equal to a 3Ghz Pentium Dual core, so it's really slow by today's standards.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Depends what you're doing. Maths throughput should still be high, with 3 wide vector units at 3 GHz.

 

[Mobius1aic]

Depends what you're doing. Maths throughput should still be high, with 3 wide vector units at 3 GHz.

Which is probably why the 360 has managed to stay competitive for so long when it comes to games with good physics, animation, etc that need GFLOPS.