TheRealMafoo on 04 February 2008
| Viper1 said: Realmofo, the CELL is one of the best chips currently at many "specific" tasks. Put it against my Core 2 Duo for many general purpose tasks and my C2D will wipe the floor with it. You cannot just assume that because the CELL currently leads in certain tasks that its product line will always do so. That's a preposterous notion in the world of chip technology. |
Oh one day the Cell will be nothing compared to other CPUs. I am just assuming that is not going to happen in the next 2-3 years, and that's all the time MS has to come up with an affordable CPU for the next xbox.
Also, yes, as certain tasks, the C2D in the Mac Book Pro I am writing this on is faster then the Cell. But it's only maybe twice as fast. At the things the Cell is faster at, it's orders of magnitudes faster. Put all that together, and smart game developers will make games with much more of a "wow" factor for gamers.
They will just take advantage of what the Cell does well, and make things we have never seen before.
