Sorry to burst your bubble but PS3 only has 1 core. That core has 1 general purpose PPC and 7 SPE's (8 SPE's are physically on the chip but only 7 are enabled to inprove manufacturing yields). The SPE's are somewhat like programable DSP's but nothing like a normal CPU.
PS3's Cell has a dual threaded PPC core, and 7 SPUs. SPUs are NOTHING like DSPs. They are completely programmable processors, and are far more similar to normal CPUs than DSPs. Whoever told you they were DSPs did no research.
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Mike @ Jan 11th 2008 11:05AM
Isn't the PS3 9 physical, 18 logical, core-wise that is? Making 4 less than half, not really trying to correct, just re-assure myself.
Jagster @ Jan 11th 2008 2:43PM
Sorry to burst your bubble but PS3 only has 1 core. That core has 1 general purpose PPC and 7 SPE's (8 SPE's are physically on the chip but only 7 are enabled to inprove manufacturing yields). The SPE's are somewhat like programable DSP's but nothing like a normal CPU.
Extinction @ Jan 12th 2008 4:15AM
PS3's Cell has a dual threaded PPC core, and 7 SPUs. SPUs are NOTHING like DSPs. They are completely programmable processors, and are far more similar to normal CPUs than DSPs. Whoever told you they were DSPs did no research.