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[QUOTE="ronvalencia"] David Shippy and Mickie Phipps, were two leading figures in the design of the Cell at the Sony-Toshiba-IBM design center. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3904/processing_the_truth_an_interview_.php For the equalisation, David Shippy referred to ATI GPU.ronvalencia
Are you saying the PS3 is superior or what?
Read http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3904/processing_the_truth_an_interview_.php?page=3But can Shippy's insight on both console's processors finally answer the age-old debate about which console is actually more powerful?
"I'm going to have to answer with an 'it depends,'" laughs Shippy, after a pause. "Again, they're completely different models. So in the PS3, you've got this Cell chip which has massive parallel processing power, the PowerPC core, multiple SPU cores… it's got a GPU that is, in the model here, processing more in the Cell chip and less in the GPU. So that's one processing paradigm -- a heterogeneous paradigm."
"With the Xbox 360, you've got more of a traditional multi-core system, and you've got three PowerPC cores, each of them having dual threads -- so you've got six threads running there, at least in the CPU. Six threads in Xbox 360, and eight or nine threads in the PS3 -- but then you've got to factor in the GPU," Shippy explains. "The GPU is highly sophisticated in the Xbox 360."
He concludes: "At the end of the day, when you put them all together, depending on the software, I think they're pretty equal, even though they're completely different processing models."
More proof that they're equal.
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