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Viper1 on 06 April 2012
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Soleron said:
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.

No, they are not cores.  Cores operate independantly, SPE's are not independant and their code is in order execution.  Think of them as a middle ground between a 2 thread operational CPU and a real second core.



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