More Memory or Bandwidth?

[Aegis]

You might've noticed that they're the specs for the upcoming consoles .

[Zxian]

I'd have to say more bandwidth. 256MB of graphics is a lot of memory for a game, so the extra 256 probably wouldn't do much. Having the memory access near instant on the other hand...

[k0pect8]

I agree with Zxian.

[Lost Soul]

id have to agree and go with bandwith,,

[boooggy]

bandwith....... B)

[Zxian]

That's funny... 4 different people have said Bandwidth... but there are only 3 votes for it!

[k0pect8]

I noticed that too.

[XPerties]

Actually I disagree with everyone. e new games being produces in Hi-Def and using a completely new engine will require more than 256 RAM. We are in a new generation of gaming with the new consoles coming out.

More RAM vote here.

[azagahl]

I'm voting for the phat memory.

But it's hard to judge just based on one spec.

If the processor cache is large enough, memory speed is less important.

If the hard drive is slow, fast memory may not help much.

Also, what is the transfer rate in bytes/s between the CPU and memory? You gave frequencies but is that cycles/s or bytes/s?

BTW which stats are for which console?

[Aegis]

I dunno how many people confused the graphics memory with the system, but the specs are for system memory.