Has the Cell peaked? If no, would it work for next gen? - More questions inside

[dahuman]

drkohler said:

dahuman said:

There is one very important purpose for a GPGPU in gaming, and that's physics simulation, it all depends on how much you want to off load and how you want your game to come out. The balance would be in the hands of the devs obviously.

The instant problem of doing physics in the console GPU is, of course, that your GPU no longer has enough power to "make pretty pictures". If you want 1080P/60Hz as your target, you'd better put a high-end GPU into your console... Technically, an A10/HD7770 combo would still be ok, do the physics on the A10 and forget all about that pseudo-xfire stuff.

That's why I said it depends on how much the offload would be, for example, Wii U setup with a supposed weaker CPU. Nvidia does just fine with their stupid physx bullshit, I say stupid because they won't make it open to AMD GPUs and Hybrid PhysX has been put on hold since the dev's old ass Nvidia card broke. the APU+GPU setup would be a great setup though, then like you said, they can do physics on the APU's GPU and use it to assist the more powerful GPU in other areas as devs see fit, we just have no details yet.