Clearing up a major misconception about PowerPC

[WolfpackN64]

Tachikoma said:

WolfpackN64 said:

That's where the PS4 and Xbox One bit themselves in the tail. The Xbox One isn't powerful enough to emulate the 360 without cloud support and the PS3's Cell Processor actually outperforms the PS4's CPU.

You realize, that the cell was handling both cpu instruction AND most of the heavy gpu functions right?
Split them up, like theyre meant to be, have the gpu handle gpu tasks and cpu do cpu tasks and the PS4 walks all over the PS3, perfornance wise.

I suspect you went headlong in to this thread with only googlesmarts and trendy nintendo forum soundbytes..

That's the point of the Cell, it could handle both tasks. In pure CPU performance, the cell outperforms the PS4 CPU. It's the 18 GPU compute cores that make the PS4 so powerfull, ehile the Nvidia GPU included in the PS3 was even for its time, rather weak