Post Mortem: Cell and Xenon-How good where they for uplifting game performance?

[3dilettante]

POWER7?
No, I don't see much resemblance there.

edit:
BlueGeneL (edit: Q)?
Still not really.

 

[Elan Tedronai]

cell does its core job very well. it processes and eats numbers for breakfast. Its a shame its being forced to divert some attention to a weak gpu like the rsx

 

[Acert93]

cell does its core job very well. it processes and eats numbers for breakfast. Its a shame its being forced to divert some attention to a weak gpu like the rsx

1st party developers are not forced to use Cell to support RSX.

 

[tunafish]

Isn't ibm's latest power cpu basically cell on steroids?

No. Power7 is a continuation of the Power5 line, PowerPC A2 derives it's heritage from the lower-powered embedded cpus. As far as IBM is concerned, the cell line is dead. There have been no new developments with cell in 6 years, and the people who worked on it have moved to other projects.

Of course, IBM is a client-oriented company -- if Sony shows up and wants a cell, IBM will make them a cell.