Jack on 23 February 2007
Darc Requiem said:
Any IBM benchmarks for the sell processor do not apply to the PS3. IBM benchmarked the Cell with 8 SPUs. The Cell in the PS3 only has 6 available SPUs.
What about Havok? They say the cell is equal to about a 15 to 30 core PC.
baka the cell is designed to do DSP work I think it can do some video preprocessing before it is shipped to the GPU that is the plan anyways. Companies are never done with their compilers they are always finding ways to improve things, but at this time they do have one out. IBM would not handle the video game side of the Cell Sony is suppose to do the "compiler". IBM chip designer will talk to developers on how to better use the cell though.
