In gaming sense when the XBox360 was first released it was indeed the most powerful gaming platform out there but that only lasted to a month or so. The XBox360's GPU is based on the HD2900 Series GPU. Now that GPU is way outdated and when it premiered for the the PC market we found out how seriously flawed it is. Currently we are already in the HD4000 Series generation of GPUs. Even the HD4670 RM300 GPU is on par with the Xbox360 GPU.

That said the Xbox360 is a dedicated gaming machine so it can squeeze more out of the system to increase frame rates. Unlike a PC where some power is reserved for background apps. Still with multi-core and more efficient processors we solved that too.

A decent PC with a Core2Duo Processor, a midrange RM300-400 GPU, 2GB Memory will beat the XBox360 easily today.