Remember when Sony said the PS3 would render at 120 fps? Forget it, 240fps

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Fernando said:

FPSrules said:
i believe the playstation 4 will use the same processor in the ps3, the cell processor. Cell is without debate the most powerful processor ever created with 8 cores compare to PC currently using 2 and 360 using 3. and even though ps3 has been out for 2 years the cell's potential power is untapped.

i think ps4 will just have a much better graphics card, and cell of course

 

 

 

The PS3 doesn't have 8 cores... it's a single core processor with with 8 SPEs... way different that a duo or quad core processor.

A $100 Intel Corel 2 Duo processor is way faster than a PS3 Cell processor...

 

wait wat? the fail palm its for you. a quadcore maybe but a 1.6ghz dual core isn't.

and the SPE are cpu, they even have 256kb of cache EACH.

from IBM:

All things considered the theoretic 204.8 GB/s number most often cited is the best one to bear in mind. The IBM Systems Performance group has demonstrated SPU-centric data flows achieving 197 GB/s on a Cell processor running at 3.2 GHz so this number is a fair reflection on practice as well.

The kernel and scheduling is distributed across the SPEs. Tasks are synchronized using mutexes or semaphores as in a conventional operating system. Ready-to-run tasks wait in a queue for an SPE to execute them. The SPEs use shared memory for all tasks in this configuration.

in comparison to the 360 CPU:

from IBM:

115.2 GFLOPS theoretical peak performance

Xenon is a Tri-Core CPU PowerPC based better than intel x86 cpus,

by force a very high clocked intel x86 or quadcore cpu is needed to match ps3 or even 360 cpu.