Why Sony should also use a Cell Processor for PS5 (x86+Cell coprocessor)

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Errorist76 said:

SegataSanshiro said:
lol, I love it when people think just because a CPU from over a decade ago is better just because it says 3.2 GHz over 1.6 GHz. Guess what, Switch CPU core per core is better than the one in PS4 despite being slower. PS4 still beats it since it has 8 cores. The cell was Power PC. Power PC was in 7th gen systems and Wii U. PS4 and Xbox use X86. The Switch is using ARM.

It's also a fact that the Cell was faster than the Jaguar in floating point calculations. That’s what the OP was hinting at.

Yeah, it was a floating point beast. But only under the right circumstances. Being in Order and depending massively on perfect scheduling it could be extremely slow at the same time though.

Even low cost Jaguar cores from five years ago can easily outperform Cell in most disciplines.

And over ten years later, why should anyone need an outdated Cell for floating point related stuff if he can go for GPGPU? Doesn't make the slighest sense.