Fishie said:
Staude said:
Katilian said:
Staude said:
The Cell.
It has UNLIMITED powaz !
No seriously. It's all about opinion anyways, but the cell was designed with super computers in mind and is between 8-40 times better than a pc cpu. |
And how exactly do you quantify it being better than a PC (i assume you mean x86 based) CPU? My GPU can perform certain tasks significantly better than my CPU, but it would suck as a general purpose processor.
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I read it somewhere. In either case MikeB is pretty spot on with his layout of the cell. (most of it anyhow)
I've read a lot about the cell to dig in why it has so much hype, but it's because like with the PS2, the PS3's design is so that you can extract more and more power from it the more familiar you are with the arcitecture. Sure it does mean bad ports at first, but once it sets off, it's miles ahead of anything else.
I could easily imagine the PS4 (if using a new version of cell) not having a GPU and simply running everything on the Cell.
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Sony dropped out of their CELL partnership so now it is owned exclusively by Toshiba and IBM.
You wont see a CELL processor in the next Playstation, Sony learned a very expensive lesson with CELL.
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That does'nt mean that Sony could'nt fund R & D for a Cell powered PS4. Sony still afterall have a licence to use Cell. Just cos they out source Cell production too Toshiba does'nt mean that Sony would'nt have any say in the Cell chip in the future. I mean Sony could get the likes of IBM or Toshiba to design a hybrid Cell chip just for PS4 in they wanted too.
