Author: Kllrnohj
Posted: 22 Feb 2013 03:46:07 am (GMT -5)
Care to actually elaborate on that?
Dude, Cell sucked. The CPU part of it (the single PowerPC core) was trash, and the SPEs are a handful of floating point SIMDs with no real purpose. And even though all it could do was floating point work, it was still slower than the GPU sitting next to it - a *lot* slower.
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Posted: 22 Feb 2013 03:46:07 am (GMT -5)
| TheStorm wrote: |
| Personally I think switching to x86 is going to be a mistake |
Care to actually elaborate on that?
| KermMartian wrote: |
| On the technical side, I think the departure from the Cell processor is an unfortunate one, given how impressive the chip was from a specs standpoint, |
Dude, Cell sucked. The CPU part of it (the single PowerPC core) was trash, and the SPEs are a handful of floating point SIMDs with no real purpose. And even though all it could do was floating point work, it was still slower than the GPU sitting next to it - a *lot* slower.
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