Clearing up a major misconception about PowerPC

[curl-6]

fatslob-:O said:

curl-6 said:

According to Marcan it has SIMD, just weaker SIMD compared to its competitors.

They basically compromised raw power in exchange for backards compatibility. That said, it has some advantages over the last gen HD twins that help mitigate its lower clock speed; better IPC, out of order execution, more cache, the ability to offload work to the GPGPU and dedicated audio chip, etc.

It's SIMD capabilities is limited to 2 single precision floats! (According to the source section 3.4)

It doesn't even extend to integers! SSE and SSE2 which are extensions practically found on EVERY modern x86 CPUs ever since the PENTIUM 4 can compute 4 single precision floats or 8 16-bit integers ...

It has a 32-bit integer unit.