| Yousuf Khan 2005-05-14, 12:31 am |
| '360 wrote:
quote:
> when reports came out in early 2004 about the Xbox2 CPU having three PowerPC
> cores, each capable of two threads (6 threads total) running at over 3
> GHz, people here said that just could not or would not happen. well, it is
> apparently happening.
>
>
> the only weakness I can see (as a non-tech person) is the small 1 MB of L2
> cache, shared between all 3 cores.
>
> the whole CPU is 165 million transistors. compared to Xbox's Intel CPU
> which is 20 to 25 million, and PS2's CPU which is ~13 million.
>
>
IBM does like to pile on the cores doesn't it? Xbox, Cell, etc.
Even using 512MB of GDDR3 as its main memory. It seems to have
everything on paper.
Yousuf Khan
|