Flachmatuch
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Marconelly said:Nothing is amazing if you compare it to some crazy expensive end of the line solutions or the top of the line supercomputers. Cell chip however will be sold in a device that's going to be very cheap, even compared to PCs, and is generally aimed towards mass market products. That's why it makes sense comparing it to dual G5, as they are featured in a consumer computer you can buy in any store, and are close to the top of the line in that market. For the rendering demo they showcased, Cell does hugely better job than those dual G5s, IBM had a comparision chart that displayed that, but the demo was of course suited to Cells architecture.
And this is what I'm contesting, to a degree. I don't think the Cell architecture will be so much better to general purpose computing (if even), which should be the case if Sony is comparing Cell to the G5.