crumas2 on 27 July 2009
Lots of interesting stuff in this thread, such as claims that the cell is a CPU/GPU hybrid (it's a CPU with some really powerful DSP hardware built in, not a GPU), and that the cell has 8 cores (it doesn't... it has 1 PPE and 8 SPEs, 6 of which can be used by developers), and finally, that the Cell isn't any harder to develop for than the tri-core processor in the 360 (it's definitely harder to develop for if you want to get good performance out of it).
I do however agree that the Cell has a higher top-end than the tri-code CPU in the 360, but it takes heavy lifting to get there, i.e. - it costs more.
