Is the Playstation 3 doomed?

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Kwaad said:

Anti-sony thread, baiting, and trolling. I'd already have been baned twice over if I was occupied in this thread... Ok. I'm done. I have nothing more to add, than.

The PS3 is NOT a failure.

There WILL be a PS4. (with that name)

 

EDIT: Actually F@H is horrible on the PS3. It is running at roughly 20% power. As F@H uses REALLY REALLY REALLY advanced stuff the PS3 has trouble with. Games are much simpler, and thus yet, that much faster even over F@H compared to a PC.

EDIT2: F@H uses complex instructions, and lots of them, the Cell chokes on that. The fact the Cell is faster at all, is impressive.

sorry are you high? Folding@home is exactly the kind of thing that Cell is designed for. The Cell has a whole lot of vector processing units which have incredible throughput when given a lot of number crunching mathematics but is completely useless in terms of branchy code (Same as GPU). Things with lots of mathematics, such as matrix and vector operations (Graphics, Physics) will run incredibly well on the Cell, as they would on a GPU, because they have dedicated hardware vector units, while things that have branchy type code (such as AI) would be useless on the Cell (well, not useless, it would just not utilise the vector processors)

Folding@home has some complex stuff that the Cell is no good at, yes. But they simply don't give that to the Cell. Those work units go to the PCs which are more flexible than the PS3 (and ATi client). However, don't think that the PS3 isn't being used to its full potential with folding. This is EXACTLY the kind of thing that Cell was designed for.