Computer vs PS3 vs Xbox360
- Thread starter Kazoon
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1. Your point?
2. Not alll of them have 8 cores working, some only have 7. In fact, if i recall, design specs are done for 7 and not 8
That, as I said in my post, is a matter of opnion (and also, as i noted in my post, if the game is made for it)
You're right. It doesnt.Im guessing you are making the incorrect assumption that you cant hookup a PC to that....
I don't know about that. If I had that size of a screen to play my PS2 on (and the sound system to back it up) it'd be pretty sweet. Now make that a PS3 and a game that actually uses all the power available to it...I'd say that's a lot of 'sweetness.'
If you want to get technical the PS3 has an 8 core. 1 PPE and 7 SPEs. The Cell processor itself can have up to 8 SPEs iirc. But the yeild is probably still pretty low for the 7 and 8 SPE cells.
Im not sure thats contextually relevant as the thread deals with comparing the various platforms rather than asking "does the PS3 have any merit"
Physically yes. But whether or not the cores are functionally available is another issue. I know they issued a notice to devs not to explicitly rely on 8 cores ... course that was awhile back, i hope thats been rectified as of now
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Well this is the PS3 vs. computer vs. 360 thread isn't it? Platform or what ever, its still comparing things about them. I side with PC, but I'm just saying that the only good thing the PS3 has in my mind, is an 8 core processor.
A comparison requires two things (which i think is the root of my original comment) ....
Is not a comparison.
Perhaps but in the spirit of comparisons, 8 cores arent anything new. Also, like 8-way SMP, that level of threading isnt often used by gaming (especially as each generation has a substantial increase in per-core performance thus nulling the need -- until now, for increased core counts)
I hadn't heard anything about that, I knew they were having serious yeild trouble getting units off the line with at least 7 operational SPEs. The 8th core (the PPE) is more a dispatcher if my understanding is correct and there are supposed to be only 6 SPEs available to developers, the 7th is reserved for OS tasks.
