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PS3 Hardware
By edge929 on 4/15/2011 3:48:14 PM , Rating: -1
This is exactly the reason Sony puts high-end hardware in their consoles, for a longer life-cycle and therefore lasting revenues. The 8-core CELL processor is still considered high-end for 2011. To my knowledge, there isn't even a consumer-level 8-core processor that can be purchased right now (the $4000 Xeon X7560 is NOT consumer-level). Sure the price is astronomical at launch and Sony still takes a hit on it, they make it up on the software side over the longer life cycle.

RE: PS3 Hardware
By Myrandex on 4/15/2011 7:48:20 PM , Rating: 2
How can you even compare the cores in the PS3 to the cores in the Xeon. The PS3 has a general purpose CPU (1) plus the measely little SPE cores. This would be like purchasing a modern single core processor and tacking on 8 more 486 CPUs running at a faster clockspeed specialized for certain tasks. So sure you have cores, but again those cores are not even in the same league as the cores you are talking about with the Xeon.

RE: PS3 Hardware
By jay401 on 4/18/2011 7:34:23 AM , Rating: 2
"The 8-core CELL processor is still considered high-end for 2011."
This is a joke, right?
Aside from it not being apples-to-apples because it's not really eight CPU cores in that thing, every quad-core CPU with hyperthreading is much nearer an 8-core processor than that thing.

RE: PS3 Hardware
By chick0n on 4/20/2011 11:32:45 AM , Rating: 1
That means you have zero idea of how CPU works.

it all comes down to what the CPU was designed for.

Cell-BE is a number crunching monster,but for general purpose its garbage.

and PS3 has only 7 SPE activated. not 8. when PS3 first released IBM had problems with yield.

RE: PS3 Hardware
By dark matter on 5/7/2011 7:56:14 AM , Rating: 1
I have you credit card details here courtesy of Sony.


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