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HappySqurriel on 04 February 2008
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TheRealMafoo said:
Passenger57 said:
To the real mafoo, do you honestly think the cell is really that good of a chip? Honestly do people really believe Sony's PR to the extent that they think the cell is the end all?

 All the "PR" I look at is IBM's. I have also read a few white papers from universities that study the possibilities of the Cell. The Cell is by far the most powerful CPU ever used in a gaming console.

Oh, and IBM has no need to tout the Cell over the CPU in the x-box. They made both. The reason the x-box CPU is not used anywhere else, is the power to performance ratio sucks. You would never put 500 x-box 360 CPU's in a supercomputer for that reason. There are many Supercomputers using the Cell as we speak.

I have been a software developer for 20 years, and I am much more a computer than a console gamer, and as a techie, the Cell is an amazing CPU.


Being "the most powerful CPU used in a gaming console" is expected being that the PS3 is the newest high-performance console on the market. Being that you're a software developer you should realize that the "amazing" performance of the Cell (and any distributed system) is largely theoritical, and the more parallel processing units you break an algorithm into the more waste there is in a system.