WilliamWatts on 03 August 2010
| Xoj said: erm not an atom that's wrong in so many levels. that's for sure, maybe gpu will be better but even a core 7i barely gets to floating point performance of cell based cpus.
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Floating point performance isn't everything. The i7 isn't designed to be a floating point monster because it is designed to run an operating system like Windows and perform well at general purpose tasks. So sure the Atom sucks at floating point, but then again the Cell processor would suck at running Windows by comparison. Beyond that, they can lean on the GPU which is specialised at floating point operations, even more so than the Cell is.
