Kyros on 01 July 2008
Which is about 5 times what the cell can do.
This statement needs clarification. The CELL is a single-precision processor. Its double precision ALUs are small. This is done because many usecases only need single-precision computations (games, video conversion, many scientific algorithms). Calling only double precision scientifically useful is dangerous. This depends on the usecase.
There is or will be a double precision CELL btw. So if you need double-precision: Buy an IBM Cell blade. GPUs are great for many usecases but they are simply limited.
It boils down to:
FLOPS: GPU > CELL > x86
Flexibility: x86 > CELL > GPU.
