Why MAG is ONLY PS3. Not possible X360 or PC:

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Soleron said:

What?

Look, there are PC processors much faster than the Cell. With Core i7 you can have more threads than the Cell too (has 8; Cell has 7).

But i don't think you're trying to make a serious point here.

 

Even with one SPE disabled and other used to OS the Cell still has eight threads, since the PPE has two threads. I think you've counted it as just one thread.

Plus you can't beat the 8 FLOPS/clock cycle Altivec matrix with any x86, x64 SIMD processor. When it comes down to 'crunching' numbers the Cell is about four times as faster as the top Core i7. The X360 Xenos processor also uses Altivec and it's about 50% faster (FLOPS wise) than the i7 965.

Of course there's still many factors into play, like branch prediction and in-order operations (both the Cell and the Xenos would 'die' running an OS like Windows), and more importantly cache size and transistor count, but still the thread starter has a point when he mentions the Cell as an advantage on this specific issue.