Linux: PS3s Cell is faster than i7 965 XE

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Kynes said:

Soleron said:

"Mike, you can say what you want, but an in order, RISC CPU is not what Joe Sixpack needs in his PC."

Um, we're all running RISC CPUs. x86 is translated to an internal instruction set which is RISC in nature.

It's true. Maybe I should have bolded the important thing in my assertion, which is "an in order". SPU's have other barriers with everyday code, as having direct access to only 256 KB of memory space, it's L2, and having to do DMA memory access to RAM. This introduces a really big latency, which harms performance. Cell is great for set top boxes, HD video codecs, supercomputers, and things like that, but not so great for databases, word proccessors and spreadsheets.

Sometimes I have lost in translation problems.

actually ubuntu runs fast in it very fast.

everything runs in seconds with just 2 Spus.

anything it can't due because lack of intructions it does it with muscles, its very fast more than my core 2 duo.

sadly ps3 have only 256mb 3.2Ghz XDR ram, + RSX 256mb that its restrict in linux.

which may cause slow downs with lack of ram. firefox eats up 200mb by itself.