TheRealMafoo said:
Intel and AMD still make single core CPU's Also, go here, and read a bit. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/cell/index.html?S_TACT=105AGX16&S_CMP=LP This is a nice paper on ray-tracing on the Cell. A good read, but for the ppl not interested in reading, here is a part of the paper:
For benchmarking purposes the following values were selected: • 1280x720 (720p) output image size • 7455x8005 Map size • 2048 map steps to full haze • 1.33 x (2 – 8 Dynamic) or ~2-32 samples per pixel Visualization and Computer Animation
With these settings the following rendered frame rates were measured:
System / frames per second 2.0 GHz Apple G5 1GB memory (no image encode) 0.6 3.2 GHz UP Cell 512MB memory 30 3.2 GHz 2-way SMP Cell 1GB memory 58
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So, to prove your point about Ray-TRACING you link to a paper about Ray-CASTING ... If you didn't realize this, Ray-Casting is the Technique that John Carmack used to produce 3D graphics with Doom; it is quite a bit different than Ray-Tracing. The G5 was released in 2002 and for its entire life was considered to be a worse performing processor than the equlivalent Pentium 4 and Athlon processors; the Cell must be uber, it outperforms a processor that is 5 years older than it and was considered mediocre when it was released.
You should really be quiet if you truely don't know what you're talking about!