Clearing up a major misconception about PowerPC

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WolfpackN64 said:

Tachikoma said:

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

Kind of funny how PS3 and Wii U/PS4 are almost opposites; in PS3 a beefy CPU picks up the slack for a less than ideal GPU, while Wii U/PS4 emphasize more robust GPUs to make up for lightweight CPUs.