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gDrive · 12-25-2011

Originally Posted by Ubefuct

Of course, haven't you seen the commercials? It only does everything.......

Yeah, it ONLY does EVERYTHING!

madbro · 01-05-2012

For all who wonder why PS3's CPU is so limited:
http://www.ps3devwiki.com/index.php?title=CELL_BE
PS3's CPU is composed of 1 PPE and 8 SPEs.
PPE is doing only integer math, which allows an OS to function.
SPEs can't do integer math. They can only do floating-point math, which is used in hashing, graphics rendering, vector computation, etc. So as you see, this is used for games and multimedia. You can't use floating-point math to accelerate integer math.

Now I hope I've cleared up things.

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01-05-2012	#12
madbro Apprentice Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Outer Space Posts: 3 Likes: 0 Liked 1 Time in 1 Post Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	For all who wonder why PS3's CPU is so limited: http://www.ps3devwiki.com/index.php?title=CELL_BE PS3's CPU is composed of 1 PPE and 8 SPEs. PPE is doing only integer math, which allows an OS to function. SPEs can't do integer math. They can only do floating-point math, which is used in hashing, graphics rendering, vector computation, etc. So as you see, this is used for games and multimedia. You can't use floating-point math to accelerate integer math. Now I hope I've cleared up things.

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