The Cell Processor....

[joeorc]

Soleron said:

slowmo said:
The 360 CPU has 3 dual cores which equals 6, if you don't even know that I hardly think you're qualified to compare the two.

No, he's right, it's three cores. The 360 has simultaneous multithreading (Intel calls it HyperThreading, HTT) where one core can use its idle functional units to execute another thread in parallel. But it can't be counted as another real core - you can get +30% performance at best, but at worst -10%. Intel turns off HTT for benchmarks, that's how variable it is.

The PS3's PPE has SMT too, but just like the 360 it's not significant enough to call it another core.

@Soleron:

spot on..good info..! though the xbox360's processor is ,made by IBM not intel...