MikeB on 14 September 2007
@ sieanr
The SPEs are mostly responsible for the flop performance, so the PPE is not going to make up for the disabled SPE and the one
Yes, mostly but the peak performance of the PPE + VMX equals one SPE. The theoretical peak performance of the Cell minus one SPE is 218 GFLops.
Flop performance is by no means the be all end all of CPU benchmarking
It's just one of the more objective benchmarks available.
