[QUOTE="Matrixfart2005"]

Last time I saw a thread arguing this rubbish was back in early 2006. :P

 

I have no idea where you got the notion that everything the CELL calculates must go through the PPE, as this is completely untrue. The PPE has to "oversee" the current activities in the various SPE's, but each SPE can communicate directly with any part of the PS3 without the need to go through any other part of the CELL. You can of course, as a previous poster pointed out, stream data through all the SPE's, but that does not mean you HAVE to do it this way.

 

The areas where CELL lags behind the Xenon in the area known as "general purpose" processing capabilities, which is rarely an issue in games. Where is does excel is in physics calculations, vector calculation and other tasks where heavy number crunching is the deal of the day.

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Because they need to satisfy their need for pointless arguments. :P 

[QUOTE="muscleserge"]Xenon is cripled with only1mb of cache, because of it if it uses all of its threads it will get bottlenecked and lose efficiency. Both CPUs are good, each has a different purpose. Xenon=general processing Cell= Floting Point processing.VulcanMage119

Last time I saw a thread arguing this rubbish was back in early 2006. :P

I have no idea where you got the notion that everything the CELL calculates must go through the PPE, as this is completely untrue. The PPE has to "oversee" the current activities in the various SPE's, but each SPE can communicate directly with any part of the PS3 without the need to go through any other part of the CELL. You can of course, as a previous poster pointed out, stream data through all the SPE's, but that does not mean you HAVE to do it this way.

The areas where CELL lags behind the Xenon in the area known as "general purpose" processing capabilities, which is rarely an issue in games. Where is does excel is in physics calculations, vector calculation and other tasks where heavy number crunching is the deal of the day.  

The categories do not have the same value when it comes to the final average. Gamplay is much more valuable than sound f.ex. and a point drop in gameplay would penalise the average more than a point drop in sound.

GS did an articel on this a while back. 

Being an awards member on BestBuy I always buy my games there, since I don't need to talk to fanboyish clercs.

That said, it is fun at times to go into a Gamestop or EB Games just in pure spite. It is funny as hell to go in and completely circumvent their beliefs, regardless of platform. No matter what they say they very rarely actually know a whole lot about it.