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Soleron on 06 April 2012
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Darc Requiem said:
Badassbab said:
pezus said:

PS3 doesn't have 8 cores...


Strictly speaking it has 9.

1 PPE Main Core

8 SPE Satellite Processors

However 1 SPE is disabled to improve chip yields and 1 is reserved for the OS leaving 6 for gaming


SPEs aren't cores.

Yes they are. They're just not completely general purpose.