Why Xbox360 has three cores

[bbot]

Two are for graphics.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27359

 

[Guden Oden]

None of the cores are "for" anything. They can be used for anything the programmers want, including sound, gfx, skinning, physics, and so on with no limit on which core can do what. They're all technically identical, and offer the same base performance.

 

[London Geezer]

Two are for graphics.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27359

It's nice to have such professional news sites where the articles seem more and more random people's posts in internet forums than actual "articles".

 

[Platon]

Sounds strange, and from what we have heard from developers they are using the cores in various ways. But I do wonder what they mean by graphics though, could for example physics actually fall under that as well, since you need the physics to calculate where the graphics are?...

 

[Shifty Geezer]

These things are CPUs. They're infinitely programmable. They do what you tell them to do (if you tell them right!).

 

[Jon Brittan]

These things are CPUs. They're infinitely programmable. They do what you tell them to do (if you tell them right!).

Actually, they do what you tell them to do regardless, it's just that they only give the answer you wanted if you tell them right...

(I realise you know this, just being pedantic)

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Sorry, I meant to say they do what you want them to. 10 demerits for me

 

[_phil_]

i think the inquirer is testing its reader base :how far they can can go with non-information content , how much stupidity can they swallow,just to estimate how cheap they can they get mouse clicks on their site.
The next step is a random article generator.

 

[pipo]

The next step is a random article generator.

 

[Nite_Hawk]

The next step is a random article generator.

Well, the good news is that the quality may go up...

Nite_Hawk

 

[Carl B]

I think online publications have a new strategy these days: post an article concerning consoles, watch the hits roll in. It doesn't even matter what it's about anymore, or if it's true or not - the hits will come...

Anyway in one of Microsoft's slides at some point or another, they gave what they felt the ideal core-useage breakdown would be: one for AI, one for general game code, and the other for something else, I forget - physics maybe? Anyway I'm sure someone around here has that slide to post.

 

[_phil_]

one for the monney ,one for the show....

 

[Powderkeg]

i think the inquirer is testing its reader base :how far they can can go with non-information content , how much stupidity can they swallow,just to estimate how cheap they can they get mouse clicks on their site.
The next step is a random article generator.

At least they haven't taken it to the level that CVG did when they claimed to have been at a Konami press event regarding MGS on the Xbox that never took place.

 

[nelg]

i think the inquirer is testing its reader base :how far they can can go with non-information content , how much stupidity can they swallow,just to estimate how cheap they can they get mouse clicks on their site.
The next step is a random article generator.

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[3dcgi]

Because 4 cores wouldn't fit?