Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Quote:
Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> a 3.2 MMhz Cell processor might be the most powerful CPU we could run MOS on.
Ignoring the Cell's SPEs, I think that a 2.0 GHz G4 is faster in computations where the G4's low memory bandwidth is not a bottleneck.
It would prove an interesting comparison, the Cell does have a speed advantage but as an in order processor it might lose to a slower G4.
However, the SPEs could be used to offload some of the processor intensive tasks (like video encoding and decoding). Everyone keeps thinking of the units as additional processor cores when its probab ly more accurate to think of them as specialized coprocessors.
And unlike previous posts I've seen here, the SPEs do not look that difficult to program.
The PS3 would give us some capabilities that would be difficult to match on conventional PPC based systems.
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