I can understand 500 gflop per blade being an achievement for IBMs supercomputer business. For 90 nm that is a lot of performance but it seemed so specifically tailored for HPC work that it was slow at everything else. Remember the Visiontek mpeg2 encoder card? Slower than nehalem and totally inflexible.
While the Xenos and Cell instruction set may be shared, the ability of the xbox to cope with numerous branches and threads that you should expect in a gaming scenario surpass the PS3 dramatically. The xbox is much more versatile.
While the Xenos and Cell instruction set may be shared, the ability of the xbox to cope with numerous branches and threads that you should expect in a gaming scenario surpass the PS3 dramatically. The xbox is much more versatile.
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