Anandtech article reveals disappointing performance from IBM's cores.
Speaking directly with developers working on next gen dev kits, they say that IBM pulled the wool over MS/Sony's eyes with their astronomical performance numbers and low costs. Basically, "You get what you pay for."
"...the real-world performance of the Xenon CPU is about twice that of the 733MHz processor in the first Xbox...floating point multiplies are apparently 1/3 as fast on Xenon as on a Pentium 4."
"The Cell processor doesnt get off the hook just because it only uses a single one of these horribly slow cores; the SPE array ends up being fairly useless in the majority of situations, making it little more than a waste of die space. "
"The most ironic bit of it all is that according to developers, if either manufacturer had decided to use an Athlon 64 or a Pentium D in their next-gen console, they would be significantly ahead of the competition in terms of CPU performance."
"Although both manufacturers royally screwed up their CPUs, all developers have agreed that they are quite pleased with the GPU power of the next-generation consoles."
At least we're getting state of the art graphics from ATI/Nvidia.
Speaking directly with developers working on next gen dev kits, they say that IBM pulled the wool over MS/Sony's eyes with their astronomical performance numbers and low costs. Basically, "You get what you pay for."
"...the real-world performance of the Xenon CPU is about twice that of the 733MHz processor in the first Xbox...floating point multiplies are apparently 1/3 as fast on Xenon as on a Pentium 4."
"The Cell processor doesnt get off the hook just because it only uses a single one of these horribly slow cores; the SPE array ends up being fairly useless in the majority of situations, making it little more than a waste of die space. "
"The most ironic bit of it all is that according to developers, if either manufacturer had decided to use an Athlon 64 or a Pentium D in their next-gen console, they would be significantly ahead of the competition in terms of CPU performance."
"Although both manufacturers royally screwed up their CPUs, all developers have agreed that they are quite pleased with the GPU power of the next-generation consoles."
At least we're getting state of the art graphics from ATI/Nvidia.