| Leon Dexter 2005-06-10, 12:32 am |
| <xenon360> wrote in message news:XaWdnfTozJ-sTTXfRVn-rw@comcast.com...
quote:
> note that the Cell processor going into PlayStation3 is "only" about 35
> times more powerful (in floating point) than the Emotion Engine CPU in
> PlayStation2.
>
> even *if* Sony and IBM were to unleash the 8th SPE (only 7 SPEs are active
> in PS3's Cell CPU) and unleash the full clockspeed that Cell is capable of
> ( 4 to 5 GHz ) it would still only be, roughly, a 50x increase over PS2's
> Emotion Engine. therefore, that would still not even come close to the
> ambitious but fairly reasonable goal of a 100-fold increase over PS2's
> Emotion Engine CPU that IBM / Kahle suggested that Kutaragi and the
> Cell-team aim for.
>
> ....let alone Ken Kutaragi's original goal of *1000* times the performance
> of Emotion Engine, which was insanely unreasonable and just pure fantasy.
>
> oh well, poor Kutaragi ...he can try again with PS4 !
Easy enough to accomplish. If you want a 1,000-fold increase, just wait a
dozen years or so to make the PS4 instead of just 5. :-)
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