afree_account said:
I hate this post... no offense! Did you even follow the link, or why are you spouting nonsense ? The cell is used in 3 Systems of the top 100, thats not my definition of most. @dbot I don't want to nitpick but the x360 cpu is based on the power architecture. In the top 500 there are 60 power systems listed. I know the chip is not identical, but neither is the cell. The ps3 cell is not appropiate for supercomputers, cause it's performance in dp floating point operations is to slow. So they are using the advanced cell version Powerxcell. btw. i loled at the article, roadrunner is made of alot of opterons, but every opteroncore got a cell based coprocessor. I guess even ibm can't do without standard architecture. |
CELL can't do everything. Heavy general purpose processing and large inputs come to mind second after double precision what you could need and which are weak points of CELL. Anyway the thing this actually shows is that CELL is made for several other jobs too, which means its not optimized for one job(Ie gaming). On the otherhand you haven't seen X360 or WII processor in any other uses as they has been made for gaming purposes only. Also it doesn't matter which system is most powerful. Just check the current sales. Can you see even HD console on the top of list? No... Funny thing here is that historically in console gens the loser has always been the most powerful console. :)