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My PS3 is full of fail...
sdedalus83:
--- Quote from: Mag-X on February 26, 2010, 01:33:21 PM ---Even if the cell processor is faster than my Core i5 750, it doesn't matter since I've yet to see it hit 100% load. ..and I have my doubts that the cell processor can be faster than my i5. No matter how advanced it was, we're talking about a CPU that came out over three years ago.
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In highly optimized, well designed, streamlined processes, requiring single precision floating point operations, the Cell is considerably faster than your i5, probably twice as fast. Considering that you come across such situations in normal desktop usage just about only when you use distributed computing programs, like folding@home, you end up dealing with the Cell's horrible inefficiency with code that isn't crafted perfectly, along with its poor integer and double precision performance. Last year's version of YDL ran much more slowly on my PS3 than Linux ever did on my original Xbox.
Shadowbolter - If you're going to pull out theoretical performance numbers which mean nothing in the real world, at least mention that a $100 PC GPU (HD4850) is faster than the Cell and RSX combined. Sure, it's meaningless for anything but folding, but so is the theoretical performance of the Cell when discussing anything outside of highly specialized coprocessor applications.
Mag-X:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on February 26, 2010, 01:43:27 PM ---CELL broadband processor was finalized in 2004, then was transferred to the PS3 in 2005-2006. >_>;;
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Wow. That's like Pentium IV and Athlon 64 time.
It's amazing Naughty Dog was able to squeeze Uncharted 2 out of that thing. Just think what they could do with modern hardware.
sapsa:
--- Quote ---Even if the cell processor is faster than my Core i5 750, it doesn't matter since I've yet to see it hit 100% load. ..and I have my doubts that the cell processor can be faster than my i5...
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Thats why you wrong... PS3 Cluster bypass/crack SSL certyficate, its was 256 ? or 512bit, so.... IMPRESSIVE !
I need to add that its the CHEAPEST Cluster w/o lossing POWER !
Tatsujin:
CELL is not a desktop processor, like Core i7, Core 2 Quad and other processors. It's a super computer processor, so ... yeah.
sdedalus83:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on February 26, 2010, 02:38:22 PM ---CELL is not a desktop processor, like Core i7, Core 2 Quad and other processors. It's a super computer processor, so ... yeah.
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*facepalm* It's a coprocessor in supercomputer applications, not a processor. Almost every design using cell processors uses a cell paired in a node with an Opteron or a Xeon (which only differ from the desktop parts in number of interconnects and cache size) for use as a floating point coprocessor. For double precision FP and integer calculations, as well as general purpose use, the OOE x86 processors run rings around the Cell.
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