Squilliam said:
Procrastinato said:
Umm.. actually, the original Cell (like the one used in the PS3) is faster than any i7 in existance, when it comes to raw parallel performance, for apps requiring en-masse parallel problem solving.
Your i7 is way better at running Excel, Word, iTunes, and any game not requiring serious parallism from the CPU at the same time than the Cell, however.
The Cell really is a pretty advanced processor for what it does well, which is parallelism. If you were to compare the performance of Stanford's protein folding app, Folding@Home, on a Cell, vs any i7, the Cell would still win by a landslide. Most other things computers are used for... you're gonna want an i7 for sure.
As with many things, it really depends on the app in question. Games can have a lot of parallel problems to solve, if you weren't aware.
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The average PPD on the PS3 doing folding @ home is 900:
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Which would put its performance above every sub $1,000 processor at the time (Were Core 2 Quads even out yet back then?)
