User blog comment:Rampantlion513/BattleNews May 10th, 2012/@comment-217.199.54.138-20120511120425/@comment-1142365-20120512152106

The PS3's and Xbox's CPU isn't even close to being outdated. Both outperform even the most powerful i7s.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-cellperf/ - PS3's CPU is rated at 201GFLOPS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_hardware - Xbox 360's CPU is rated at 115.2GFLOPS

http://mos.techradar.com/techradar-corei7-benchmarks.pdf - Hex-core i7 is rated at 69.23GFLOPS.

Not to mention that the CPUs in consoles were multithreaded way before anything found in PCs were.

The only limitations in consoles is its RAM. It's only 512 MB total in either console. But hey, running BF3 on 512 MB of RAM at the framerate and graphics quality you see on consoles? Impossible with a PC.