dahuman said:
Viper1 said:
Ascended_Saiyan3 said:
Viper1 said:
Ascended_Saiyan3, the CELL BE will best the Core i7 at certain tasks but so too will the Core i7 best the CELL BE at certain tasks.
This isn't a difficult concept to understand. For example, why are there no PC's with CELL BE's as their CPU? The simple answer is they are not designed to operate in that manner and would not perform PC tasks close to the level of any modern desktop CPU.
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Who said the Cell would beat the Core i7 at ALL tasks? It wasn't me, so why are you trying to portray this as such?
BTW, their are no PCs with Cell as their MAIN CPU because of a number of factors. FIRST, it's hard as hell to break into the PC market. SECONDLY, NONE of the current code was written with the Cell's architecture in mind. I explained this with an example before. Did you just miss that post or something? It's not that far back.
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Intel's Core i7 965 XE is probably not near equal to Cell. This would seem to put the Cell at a decent amount of performance above Intel's current implementation.
^That is why I posted. This statement, whether intended to or not, suggests CELL BE supremacy above Core 17 in all respects and not just in the specialized tasks the CELL BE was developed for.
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The sad thing is modern video cards can kick the crap out of the PS3 if you compare FLOPS only, yet they are for very different things, which means the whole comparison justifys absolutely nothing. An AMD 4870x2 card by itself does 2.4 teraFLOPS vs PS3's entire 2, it doesn't mean it's better than the Cell, all your arguments mean nothing because they all have different instruction sets meant for different purposes.
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The sad thing is people don't realize that we are talking about a closed platform versus an open platform, yet, a processor that started rolling out of production lines in 2005 is STILL stronger than an Intel processor released a month or so ago.
