haxxiy on 04 February 2009
| bdbdbd said: Bolded: That's what tend to happen when increasing the speed. Just look at 360, it's CPU is essentially 3 Wii CPU:s clocked at 3,2 GHz and produces a lot more heat or PS3 CPU, runs at 3,2GHz and produces even more heat (although it has better cooling). PPC has just as much room to improve as x86 or any other RISC/CISC processor. |
The Cell isn't that hot - in fact, is one of the coolest processors on the market dispite its high performance. Even at 5 GHz it would idle at 63C and have a V-Core of 1.3. And these are IBM figures for the 90nm process. Look what they managed to do on the 65nm process.
Seriously one SPE at 2 GHz consumes ONE SINGLE freakin Watt and idles at 25C or the like. Surely it would need to be a PPE to be used on a console alone (since the SPE is what we call a 'dumb core') but still Ninty did very bad keeping the GC chip.
