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Originally Posted by canadianbacon  When it has no real advantage, and tell me one thing that can take advantage of 8 cores, let alone 4. |
I may have misunderstood you, but if 4 or 8 general-purpose cores confer no advantage (they do), of what POSSIBLE use are 7 coprocessors that are only useful for floating-point calculations?
The cell is only impressive in terms of floating-point performance, and anyone who programs knows that float operations end up being a small minority for most programs (yes, including games). My ~$900 C2D 6850 w/ 2 GB of DDR2 800 RAM (cl4) and a stock 8800GT w/ 512 MB of VRAM PC is in practice a more powerful machine than the PS3. Of course, that's not to say it could come close to
emulating the PS3.