[citation][nom]utgardaloki[/nom]The PS3 doesn't have the fastest RAM speed. But it still has the fastest bus between CPU and GPU on the home market. The fastest PC (Pci-e 2) isn't even close. The future Pci-express 3 (32 GB/sec) will come close but still won't reach the speed of PS3. The problem for PS3 is it can't hold all info in video RAM as well as main RAM needed to get the same graphical quality as the PC. In other words it can't store all readily available info needed to render a single frame. So in a situation where the PS3 needs more info to render a scene as intricate as what you'll find on the most powerful PC the memory runs out and it has to resort to read from the much slower HD.On the physics side the PS3's CPU Cell crushes any CPU on the PC side. You need a GPU on the PC side to compete with cell in this regard (and a new GPU is considerably more powerful than Cell here).[/citation]
Great view indeed but we are talking of something that has components soldered to the board directly instead of through a slot or grid array. Its obviously faster as you stated, but to believe that a CPU with a set up of something similar to a GPU is faster, I really don't see that happening. Looking at the i7, it's still faster than the cell.
"Cell was not built to be the most powerful processor, it was built to offer as much theoretical power per transistor, as a result it IS a compromised design since engineering trade-offs were made, it lacks in order processing, branch prediction, and its SPEs have limited functionality. Its main PPC based CPU is also stoneage compared to something like the Core 2.
If i remember correctly Intel showcased a design similar to Cell at one of the IDFs, to show they could do similar stuff...though such a processor is pointless if it cant reach its max capability in a variety of situations."
http/futuremark.yougamers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95229&page=2
Cell is one clever solution to the transistor count problem, but thats it, its not the Messiah of processors.
http/futuremark.yougamers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95229&page=2