| MikeB said: Do you agree the Cell is far more powerful potentially than the Xenon if programmed right. |
Depends on program. What comes for floating point operations, yes its more powerful in that stuff.
And your example regarding code running properly on both platforms is stupid. Sure you can't run PPC assembler code on x86 processors and vice versa, but who cares? Both PPC and x86 processors are capable of similar functions if coded properly for that architecture, it about what can be done, not about how it must be done.
Thats why I added "Neither you can optimize those programs for them to make them work.". Lets take two(or more like three) simple examples:
1. If you need to make program that must process 400MB data, would X360 or PS3 be faster?
(Yeah, that was pretty low, but I can give you better example.
1. b) If you need to make program that must process 200MB data and every 1MB of data needs always 10MB of data because of depencies. Process cannot be split into smaller problems, would X360 or PS3 be faster?)
2. If you need to make program that must process 200MB data and make floating point operations for every 256kB, would X360 or PS3 be faster?
(Bonus:
If you need to make program(very complex AI) that must follow paths that has 200^200 different possibilities(outcomes) and that heavily depend on previous paths, would X360, PS3 or Xbox be faster?)
