Darc Requiem on 14 September 2007
| MikeB said: @ 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. |
The Cell in the PS3 is down 2 SPEs. One is dedicated to the OS and one is disabled to increase yields. That is setting aside the fact that another can be pulled away at anytime by the OS as it has priority. I am still trying to figure out where you found out that the Cell was benchmarked without its PPE core. Even if it was its still doens't have a theoretical peak performance of 218GFLops. Why did you even do this thread if you weren't go to do it fairly and in depth? You glossed over any flaws in the PS3 design. Ignored any advantages the 360 has over the PS3. We know you like your PS3 but you don't help your personal standing by posting FUD.
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