This is a server chip, designed for the typically very parallel multi-threaded software servers have. Which is why you can't buy a Phenom X6, because such a chip would be useless for most consumers needs, compared to a higher clocked dual, triple or quad core processor.
Foibbles, no I'd say your comparison is worse (not that it matters). At least thetonestarr was using processors with the same instruction set, the Cell (t3h c3l1 p0w4h!!!) has one PPC core with 8 (7 in PS3) simplified, heavily optimised number crunching SPE's that have a different instruction set to the main PPC core. The key is that what the SPE's can do is so limited the end result is a similar useable performance level to the 360 CPU. If an app is truly optimised for Cell, its considerably more powerful. But this would take design decisions that would make it very difficult to port back to 360.
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