Xenon vs Cell Which one really is better ??

[Retrasado]

MikeB said:

@ Retrasado

Mike. he's right. Although the Cell has 8 SPEs, for the PS3, they manufacture the chips with one SPE designed to not work.

Yes, just like I stated 8 processors. Let's count:

1 PPU
7 SPUs

Makes 8 processors. Otherwise with 8 enabled SPEs and 1 PPE it would have been 9. (8 + 1 makes 9)

One SPEs like I stated endless times here on VGChartz is used by the OS.

A question for people who don't understand this. What does the 360 OS run on?

Answer: On a processor core, eating up CPU cycles as well.

Anything the PS3 OS does on this SPE won't take CPU cycles from the PPE and the other SPEs. Sony can do more and more on this SPE without this really affecting the software running on the PS3. However Microsoft cannot change much, as it would impact the games negatively which are sometimes designed the get every last ounce of performance out of the CPU.

Really it can be a good thing to do! Especially if you have so much power as the Cell has.

No. You said the Cell has 8 independent processors:

PS3 Cell of course. Much much better (8 independent processors vs 3 cores at same clockspeed, the SPEs can do a much better job than the PPE or a 360 can at well designed tasks for them to accomplish) and not only that, the way it's implemented in the PS3 architecture counts also. The Xenon has to share its L2 cache amongst all three cores and access to main memory provides far less bandwidth as it has to share the bus with the GPU and the PS3's XDR Ram provides much lower latencies.

This is totally false. Also, the PS3's OS does indeed negatively affect the system's performance while running a game in the same way as the OS on the 360 does because the SPEs are NOT seperate processors. Why can you not get this simple fact through your head? What do we need to do? get the guy who designed the Cell in here to tell you that?

Edit: btw, if this will help you to believe me: I really do not like M$ or the Xbox very much, (you can ask Madskillz or gebx if you don't believe that either) so I am most certainly NOT being blinded by fanboyism in this case.