What's the point of cell?

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radha said:

 

Anyway when you say PS3 or cell are not better than a PC, I don’t know what you mean, do you mean a Alienware ALX X-58 with cores Extreme, dual 2GB GDDR5 ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 with CrossFireX and Quad GPU Technology and 12GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 6 x 2048MB? well you are right but that is a US$4,199.00 PC.

 

Define 'better'... If you use 4 years old PC(Lets say athlon 3200+) and put new GPU($100-$200) and maybe more/better memory($30-$80) in it, it will outperform PS3 and X360 in multiplatform games. :)

radha said:

NJ5 said:
@radha: Your post was going well until you said this:

Flops it the real measure for processors

No, it's only one of the important measures, and it's usually used as an indicator of peak performance. Real-world performance (as in most things other than benchmarks) is not always indicated by peak performance.

Please explain because i want to know if is not calculations (computations), what is more important in a processor?

EDit: processor alone not the overal system.

 

Eh, its not all about floating points... :D
Some hints,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-order_execution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second

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