It's amazing how effective Sony's "PS3 power" PR has been.

[Scoobes]

bugrimmar said:

Staude said:

bugrimmar said:
^I'm running an i7 processor. there's no way that a 3 year old thing can be faster than something produced this year. ask a real tech person to get the details.

it really looks like a lot of people bought Sony's PR..

The cell is built differently. Your cpu is a general purpose one while the cell is not. Your cpu may well not be as good as the cell. I'm not saying it isn't but it may well not be.

 

It might just be you who are too sceptic :p or would like to think  better of that which you've spent a small fortune on.

or you're too blinded by the PR. think about the process of technological advance. can something produced three years ago possibly be more advanced than something produced this year?

better yet, think about the results of your wonderful cell processor so far. anything produced so far that is "absolutely mindblowing" that goes beyond something like crysis, or empire total war? if you mention killzone 2, which runs at 720p and 30fps maximum, then *laugh*.

try to get past the PR, my friend. think about the realities of technology. 

Everything you just mentioned is more to do with GPU than CPU. The Cell is actually more powerful than current CPUs in terms of RAW performance, but both chips in the PS3 are completely destroyed in terms of power by modern GPUs. In fact, for most PC games these days the CPU is becomming less important with most stuff being shifted to GPUs e.g. PhysX for Physics. A powerful GPU is far more important than a powerful CPU.

If you want to think about the realities of technology then you need to understand that the Cell processor isn't designed like normal CPUs and in numerous tasks is still more powerful then current X86 CPUs, not to mention the fact that its based on PowerPC. In fact the 360 CPU is likely more powerful then a lot of current X86 CPUs due to this as well.