| curl-6 said: I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Jaguar is nowhere near as powerful today as the Cell was in 2006, or the 360 CPU was in 2005. |
Nope. Jaguar is significantly more powerfull.
The problem with the PS3 and Xbox 360's CPU was many.
For starters they only really excelled in one type of math. (I.E. Linear Equations for the PS3), which is completely unrealistic when designing a game.
Plus, they were In-Order designs and not very wide ones at that, they were designed as low-cost, low performing solutions with the transister budgets to match.
Jaguar however is monolithic in comparison, it's fully Out-of-order, larger and more caches, more bandwidth, amazing branch predictor compared to the old consoles (PS3 didn't have one.).
Essentially, the Jaguar can do more work per clock over more cores with minimal effort by the developers, it will be even more interesting to see how developers utilise the instruction sets to eek out more performance over time.
Comparatively, an 8-Core Jaguar should perform similar to an Ivy-Bridge/Haswell 3ghz+ Hyper Threaded Dual-Core if all things are equal.
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