PS3 cell capabilities

Just to clear this up, SPE = SPU + Memory Flow Controller.
Cell can indeed be faster than a desktop CPU, but only on some few types of calculations due to the limited instructions on the SPUs. On a desktop, a desktop CPU will perform a lot better.
Also, Cell is good on decimal operations, for instance, but companies can get better performance for less money with NVIDIA Tesla or ATI FirePro lineups.
You're right about the XDR RAM, though. The bandwidth is higher than the usual desktop memory.

Consoles are made the same with the exception of hard drive upgrades.
Pc's are completley customisable from the base up.
God i hate F*cking Tards
And if you dont know what a tard is. It means RETARD!!!!

Ok since when was this thread regarding Pc's?
How the F did this come to that?
Dont go F*cking comparing ps3's to pc's
This whole thing is about Consoles. Ps3 vs xbox
F*cking Tards

face it the games you play on consoles are made on PC's...

Cell is a sub-60-dollar chip. It's nothing close to being a superprocessor. Even a mainstream desktop GPU today would offer NASA better floating point operation performance than Cell.

Single cores can process more than one thread per cycle.
Besides, Cell only has one core, the PPE. The SPUs are SIMD vector processors with limited instructions and they can't access system memory. Nothing close to something you can call a "core".

ppe is right, SPU is a term for them, but SPE'S is the coorect term for the 7 other cores, and i call them cores due to lack of a better word. the SPE's or synergistic processing element's are far more complex than you think, i don't know about a dual core, qaud I& or what ever, but sorry, the cell is far superior than that of a desktop CPU, the cell was the first to break the 6GHZ barrier, the processor directly from the worlds fastest supercomputer.capable of....