Was the PS3's bespoke nature of the Cell processor ahead of its time in 2006?
sony's marketing campaign was really something elseit managed not only to convince retarded normies that they were computer architecture experts, but also that their dogshit cpu was some sort of ancient lost super technology from the distant futuremoreover, retarded normies are STILL convinced of this 20+ years later
>>108897717all that word salad and you're still retarded enough to call x86 consoles "PCs" or some variant of it
>>108897759t. retarded normie that thinks they are a computer architecture expert on lost ancient future super technology
>>108897683>Was the PS3's bespoke nature of the Cell processor ahead of its time in 2006?Yes. The PS3 was used to build exotic renderfarms that attracted the U.S army at the time.
>>108897683Yes and it's a shame that non-Playstation developers didn't bother taking full advantage of the architecture.
>>108898011To be fair, HD gaming was expensive as shit and they had to release on multiple platforms just to get their money back.However, PS3 ports usually did get better features. Such as native 720p or supporting higher online player counts.
oh look it's this thread again
>>108897683no>>108897917zero to do with the power or capability, everything to do about being a standardized, available, readily replaceable box they don't mind using in hostile (war, unclean) conditions
>>108898085how do you know that
>>108897683No.Thye general idea was good but the execution killed it: - poor bandwidth into the computational units - the main CPU was for unknown reasons made in-order.
We already had this thread
>>108897683It tried to solve a problem.The issue is the programmers didn't want to sole that problem, parallelism. To this day programmers struggle with that
>>108898111because that's what it was, it was meant for the military retards to be able to replace a broken piece of equipment that was in a tent without them needing an education or a clean room
>>108897683the dogshit looking games sure werent
>>108897683not really, it was an interesting design but nothing special for any use case, it was good-ish at parallel tasks in the era of core 2 duo/quad but nothing impressive either.I'm glad they stopped making heavy custom shit for game consoles, they're just computers, they have literally 0 reason to use anything other than x86, it makes the lives of everyone easier for no downside.
>>108897683No, if anything it was behind times. It was a broken horrible PowerPC with a couple of stream accelerators, that came out when GPUs started becoming programmable and offered 500+ stream processing cores against the Cells ~8 vector cores.
>>108897717>>108897830>normienice larp, normalfag
>>108897683It's basically the Intel IXP, except PPC instead of ARM, and SPUs (or whatever) as offloaders vs microengines.
>own a CECH-A01>has the ylod
They should be stuck with MIPS
