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

[torok]

Errorist76 said:

torok said:

Affirming that the Cell is better than Jaguar due to floating point performance is the same of assuming a Bugatti Veyron would win a F1 race because its top speed is higher than F1 cars.

I never said anything like that...you’re putting words into my mouth. I just hinted at the fact that not everything about the Cell seems ridiculously outdated by todays‘s standards. Of course, as a whole, it is outdated by now. It’s over a decade old now.

You were simply pointing that that Cell is better in a single, extremely specific scenario, when compared to a modern low-end CPU. While ignoring that in the other 99% of the stuff a CPU has to do, even Jaguar is faster. And also ignoring that even on the PS4 devs could offload the tasks the SPEs did to part of the GPU cores and achieve much better performance.

Cell was a bad idea 10 years ago. It's not because it's outdated. It's basically a CPU with a tiny GPU-like array of cores attached to it. Bad development tools and plenty of quirks killed its HPC potential. That and the availability of Nvidia GPUs with way more cores and better dev tools.