PS3 Cell = C2D?

what do you think the PS3 cell processor about equals?

c2d 6400, 6600?????

or what else????

It is a little hard to compare something like the Cell to a desktop processor.LordEC911

[QUOTE="LordEC911"]It is a little hard to compare something like the Cell to a desktop processor.SoberWarock

Well the Cell is certainly capable of handling specialized tasks quite speedily, but it doesn't have the wide range of functionality that a desktop processor has.

It is basically apples and oranges. 

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but if the cell was one, what do you think it would be?

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but if the cell was one, what do you think it would be?

--JpR--

For number crunching it doesn't look like much can compare to it if the recent folding at home results mean anything: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6609

So according to that an ATi GPU is equivalent to the CELL :) 

I dunno 7-8 cores whatever is alot... PS3's may not be that good, but therer are probably better versions that will go to the desktop, the ps3's one is probably destroy even a qx6700 maybe in doing alot of simultenous things because tehres so many cores, but they are built differently, so it actually may be completely worse hard 2 tell.JigglyWiggly2

Nah.

With regards to floating point performance, they are roughly equal, the QX6700 and Cell. 

The Cell is a specialised processor designed to run games and whatnot in specifics, and it does that well. It does not comply to the standard x86 architecture that Intel and AMD adopt when designing CPUs for desktop PCs. The two are completely different, with the Cell not even being able to run x86 applications such as your typical Microsoft Word document. The Cell excels at what it's built to do.

As for the Cell's 'cores', they don't really count as a core. This is because firstly, they are not full cores. You can think of the SPEs in Cell as a stripped down version of the core. All they do is read and execute, they cannot distinguish or execute random orders. They're sort of like workers in a...sweat shop--they do what they're told and that's it. Who tells the SPEs the orders? The PPE, which acts as the 'boss core' by sending orders and code to the SPEs for execution. It's hard to explain, but as you can probably guess that the Cell's SPEs and PPEs do not interact with one another like the 4 FULL EXECUTION cores in say...Kentsfield or Barcelona.

Also, did anyone forget about Intel's 80 core teraflop chip? It, like the Cell processor, does not contain an x86 compliant architecture so it can't run stuff like...Windows. Intel plans to convert elements from that CPU into an x86 compatible processor.

ps3's cores are optimized mainly for multimedia...they're pretty much just for show...the three cores of the 360 is at least as powerful, and compies are much broader in their abilities. I'll take a quad-pc-cpu over the ps3's offering any day.Staryoshi87

Bad design if you ask me, but the core 2 is an ingenius design that has made me convert to it from 6 years with AMD

The introduction of the SPE is a joke, as it seems to have been designed for multimedia. And i am afraid the PC has that market already.