Video Game Console Statistics

Here you can find accurate video game console statistics on the three new next generation machines. The Xbox 360, the Playstation 3 and the Nintendo Wii.

Nintendo Wii

There are two processors that power the Wii. The CPU is a Power PC Broardway processor that has been clocked at approximately 729 MHz. The GPU is a Hollywood processor from ATI, it has been clocked at around 243 MHz.

The Wii comes with 88MiB of main memory along with 3 MiB of GPU texture memory.

It has a 512 MiB built in NAND flash memory and it takes 8cm GameCube disks as well as 12cm Wii disks.

You can use up to 4 Wii remote controllers at any one time.

PlayStation 3

The Playstation 3's CPU is a 3.2 GHz Cell Processor and it comes equipped with a RSX GPU rated at 550MHz.

In the memory department you get 256MB of XDR Main RAM and 256MB GDDR3 of VRAM.

The system is fully backwards compatible, it accepts both PlayStation 2 and PlayStation disks so you can continue to play all your old favourites.

It can also handle CD's, DVD's and the new High-Definition video disk format Blu-ray.

Xbox 360

Microsoft's Xbox comes with a custom IBM Power PC based CPU containing 3 symmetrical cores each running at 3.2 GHz.

It's custom graphics processor from ATI has 10 MB of embedded DRAM.

For memory you get 512 MB of 700 MHz GDDR3 RAM.

You can use up to 4 wireless controllers at once, there are 3 USB 2.0 ports and it has 2 memory unit slots.

To find out more about how these video game console statistics translate into performance in the real world check out our Comparing Game Consoles page for more games console information.