tmcleroy
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Radek posted on Feb 20 2006 at 02:02 PM said:tmcleroy posted on Feb 20 2006 at 05:58 AM said:A friend of mine works for IBM on the cell processor for PS3 and he says that the processor totally lives up to the hype. Example, a PC with 2 7800 GTXs ran this benchmark at 11 fps and the Cell (alone w/o a fancy gpu) ran the same benchmark at 85 fps. Amazing. Still though, i'll believe it when i see it.
The Cell has the raw power as it's a massive vector processor. But in actual aplications it might be hard to use it efficiently. Its memory/caches accesses must be handled by a programmer and having 8 (or more?) independed cores inside aren't making things easier too.
It will be probably hit and miss with Cell. Some things will be totally awesome on the PS3 where some other just average.
Yeah i forgot to mention that he said it was really hard to program for. He predicts that at first the games wont look anywhere near as good as they could potentialy look because w/ 7 cores, it's just damn hard to program on.
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