I was impressed when I saw this today in gametrailers. They are using 6 spe's of the cell, (3 ps3's because they are using 2 spe's of each one ps3 has 8, and 7 usable) and they are rendering a full car.

 Wihtout using the GRAPHICS CARD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLte5f34ya8

Thats good cause the cell has been hurting their graphics for a long time now by making it overly complicated to program. Its about time its good for something

@eugene

I heard a roumer over at GT that square enix is the first too accomplish some sort of graphics card enhancer(something like that) effect with 2 spe's of the cell. We will see how FF XIII looks in game.

Sony is fighting 2 wars that absolutely no one cares about.
1. Blue Ray vs Hd dvd
2. Who has the absolute hands down greatest graphics in the world.


In the end. No one gives a crap!

 Only multi-plat developers think so, if it's the main platform of creation you end up with games that look like Uncharted and Ratchet and clank (oooomg uncharted XD ) 

Umm I heard that the Cell can actually build the models before the GPU has to process them :P or something of that kind of mumbo-jumbo ( I don't speak 1337 :/ ) But yeah, the Cell is VERY usefull when used correctly. 

 Ahhhh I see that your statements 1 and 2 are opinions :) Glad to know they've replaced facts ^_^; 

1.) Isn't the movie industry currently bigger than the Video game?

2.) I loves me some graphics :P Apparently so do many people ^_^ but hey! I could be wrong :) 

 apart from the fact that thery're using 3 ps3 it's impressive indeed

Wasn't this posted months ago?

You're never gonna render graphics with the CPU anymore, so it's pretty pointless.

They aren't using 2 SPEs from each PS3, they're using all available SPEs from all three PS3s.  When he puts the light/dark filter over the image, you can see how the rendering workload is broken up.  Cell has 8 SPEs, 7 of them are working in a PS3, and one is reserved for I/O, so 6 are available to programmers.  One is used for image compression to send data over the network, the other 5 are used for raytracing.  On the client, one of those 5 is used to decompress the compressed images sent from the other PS3s, so in total, 14 SPEs are doing raytracing to produce a 720p image with 4x supersampling.