TheRealMafoo on 02 April 2008
| selnor said: This thread has bad tech talk. Stop calling the Cell a GPU. It's not its a CPU. End of.
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A GPU is just a specialized CPU, designed to do the kinds of math that rendering graphics needs. Nothing more.
The Cell is very good at doing the kinds of math that rendering graphics needs. In fact one of the uses for the Cell is in TVs, to render 32 or 64 video feeds all at the same time, and display realtime thumbnail videos.
In that application, the Cell is very much a GPU. It can by used to do a lot of what most GPU's do, if you choose to use it that way.
