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I posted this in a gaming thread and thought someone here could probably answer my question. This is, after all, the CPU section
"This is one thing Sony does extremely well. Hype. I'm still trying to understand if this thing is the greatest thing since sliced bread or just an overhyped piece of silicon.
They say it does 256 Gflops @ 4.6 ghz. Can it even reach those speed and is that just theoretical?
A P4 3.2 can do a theoretical 59 gflops and a Radeon X800 can do 200 gflops according to its documentation.
According to that presentation on Cell, PS3 bandwidth limits Cell to 1/10 of the power (256 gflop) so 25 gflops. If thats its theoretical limit then a P4 is theoretically faster then what Cell will be in the PS3.
What the heck, I need some computing genius to make some sense out of this crapola."
"This is one thing Sony does extremely well. Hype. I'm still trying to understand if this thing is the greatest thing since sliced bread or just an overhyped piece of silicon.
They say it does 256 Gflops @ 4.6 ghz. Can it even reach those speed and is that just theoretical?
A P4 3.2 can do a theoretical 59 gflops and a Radeon X800 can do 200 gflops according to its documentation.
According to that presentation on Cell, PS3 bandwidth limits Cell to 1/10 of the power (256 gflop) so 25 gflops. If thats its theoretical limit then a P4 is theoretically faster then what Cell will be in the PS3.
What the heck, I need some computing genius to make some sense out of this crapola."