The Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 have been thumping their chip-laden chests since they both were officially announced earlier this year. The epic pissing match culminated with both Sony and Microsoft claiming that their respective consoles would be 20 to 30 times faster than previous iterations.

Enter the brainy writers from Anandtech. The hardware site poured over the tech specs and all of the information available on the two systems and their new technologies and then broke it down for the not so tech savvy to understand. Bottom line, both systems are pretty much neck-and-neck and both will offer up jumps in processing power that's closer to two or three times faster than the current generation.

Wait, let me get this straight, Microsoft and Sony exaggerated how powerful their products are going to be? Say it ain't so.

Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PS3 A hardware discussion [Anandtech]

P.S. Reading the entire tech discussion may cause gouts of blood to jet from your ears.

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