the PS3 in a way was ahead of its time sporting one of the few 8 core processors on the market, but the industry, even most high end PC's were still on single core CPU's
>>109878887>sporting one of the few 8 core processors on the marketand used 1.5 cores lmao
AMD and intel were on dual cores dudeIntel released the Core 2 Exteme that year also
No.. It had one core and 7 vector "cores". The Xenon CPU was more forward thinking with 3/6+ vector extensions available (VMX-128 IIRC).
>>109879044>The PPE was designed specifically for the Cell processor, but during development, Microsoft approached IBM wanting a high-performance processor core for the Xbox 360. IBM agreed and built the tri-core Xenon processor, based on a slightly modified version of the PPE with added VMX128 extensions.lulz
>>109879054>the cuck broadband engine
>>109879054>Sony pays for development>Microsoft steals itpottery
>>109878887ps3 was a shitty single core with 7 shitty hamfisted hardware acceleratorsxbox 360 was the true innovatortrue 3 full performance cores cpu10mb on-die ultra fast dram for free AA512gb unified GDDR for system/vram
>>109879584>xbox 360 was the true innovator>>109879054
>>109879595>ugg make wheel>ugg so smurt>brock take wheel and make tricycle, actually can move things and go fast>ugg mad at brock
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>>109878887>8 cores8800GTS had 128 cores that could do all the same things the SPEs could...PPE - the actual real CPU core that can do CPU things is a single in-order core.
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>>109879584vliw is not an accelerator. it is a proper cpu architecture whose only sin is to not expose a pure single slot turing machine style api. or isa for you retarded larpers who can't infer this for yourself. this board has but just two classes of larpers who statistically congregate around their respective topics: ai and video games.
>>109879069they didn't steal it. sony bankrolled ibm to get the architecture going but ibm was too incompetent to deliver on its promises (actually they just lied to sony, which is based because fuck the japs, plus my conspiracy theory is that this came from the era when the mutts were scared shitless of japs and had to gunp them in every way possible) either way the xbox had rrod for the same reason that sony couldn't get away with one cpu, unrealistically promised clock rates. sony bolted on a gpu as a fix, xbox just overclocked it because muricans won't know any better.this situation is akin to amd and hbm. they bankrolled the tech at hynix and beta tested it and nvidia took it to make ai gpus. never invest in hardware innovation if you don't own the fab.
>>109879656i wonder what an advertisement ""big" "mac"" would even be like>>109881369moral of the story: never trust the americans.the 7th gen was very well known for the "red ring of death" (xbox) and "yellow light of death" (ps3)
>>109878887it still has no games
>>109878954I worked fixing computers back then and the first dual core CPU I ran into was in 2009
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>>109878887>sony spent 1.7 billion USD developing the PS3 processor>IBM just gave all the research away to Microsoftthe Epstein class always wins
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>>109878887the power of the CELL baby!
>>109879584Wasn't the 10MB of eDRAM not perfect because it wasn't enough for 4x MSAA@720p
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>>109884080it was good enough for 2xmsaa, which is still light years ahead of 0x
>>109884132Would memory management between system memory and vram be that much more difficult over the unified approach the 360 had?>.t nocoder
Blocks your path.
>>109884593Generally it would be beneficial.But it is most useful when the CPU and GPU are on the same package, if not the same die.In the case of the Xbox360 the CPU and GPU are separate packages, which means that for the CPU to access the memory it has to go over the bus on the motherboard to the GPU, and then the memory controller in the GPU has to access the RAM for it.>for every cache miss, the CPU spends ~600 cycles to get to memory!Cache management becomes more important.
It needed optimization, like if AI existed back then, or maybe if they built intricate guides or coding gurus to help devs optimize it might've worked.>>109879668>>109881545>>109882051>>109882109>Literally double the exclusives of the Wii>nogaems
>>109885164>600 cyclesholy fuck, that's not a pipeline stall, that's a goddamn pipeline arrest
>>109885216>Literally double the exclusives of the Wii>nogaemsWii had like 2,000 games and only like 12 are worth playing. But anyway, I only owned a PS3 back then but I still post nogaemes memes because they're funny.
>>109885269They are not funny, they are shameful Nintendo marketer trash, like posting about how getting raped was funny. PS3 was the better console and if people here bought their games Sony would still be competing against Nintendo instead of investing billions on radical progressive movies.Nintendo shills literally gave us the bad end and sent us to hell. Nintendo marketers gave videogames a vicious STD.
>>109885234Yeah. The three PPEs had 1MB of L2 cache shared between them to mitigate it, but of course you have up to 6 threads running at once. That's a lot of potential cache misses if you're not actively managing the cache.
>>109885295>They are not funny,seething
>>109885295i considered wagglemote a cancerous blight on gaming and never finished or even played a single wii game more than 10 minutes, but ps3 has no gaems
ps3 has no gaems
>>109885295i was a playstation guy when the ps3 came out. owned a psx, ps2, and psp.the 7th gen as a whole didn't really win me over, i'd made a gaming pc by 2006 instead. i liked all the memes because i don't get offended when someone makes fun of a company or product.
>>109878887Yeah and as all the devs had only made single threaded games up until that point, everyone found it hard as shit to not only multithread, but multithread for those 6 available gimped SPE cores, so most ports just ended up only using the PPE. Sony eventually released a post processing AA library that ran and maxed out a SPE core because there was always at least 1 core doing absolutely nothing, so may as well get some free AA (although it was shit and looked worse than FXAA).
>>109885295ps3 has no ammo
no ammo
>>109885295cope
>>109878887>The PS3 has 8 coresSure, and my motorcycle has 8 tires.
>>109878887sneaky wording, you call it an "8 core processor" which is technically true, and claim most pc's were still using single core cpus's, which is also true.but these suggest to the reader that the ps3 has an 8 core cpu, which is false, the cpu part of the cell is one core, the rest are vector co-processors, not general purpose cpu cores
>>109885862Not entirely true.The PS2 had two vector coprocessors, one of which was very similar to the SPE in one of the ways you could use it, in that you could upload code and data into it's internal RAM and have it run that program.So with the PS3 you take that and do it four or five more times. That was the idea at least.
>>109886143Can't believe they wanted the PS3 to have just the cell and no gpu.
>>109886663I assume it would have been a GPU somewhat like the PS2 had and you'd have had two or three SPEs calculating the polygon transforms and particles and pushing them to that GPU.With the frequency bump alone, a single SPE could do several times the number of calculations over the VPU in PS2.But either they couldn't put together an upgraded GS fast enough, or lacked the ability to build in the features they wanted (shading and lighting shit), so they ended up calling in nVidia.
>>109878887What a retarded thing to say, it was already criticised at launch for being an outdated piece of shit from day one. It was never 8 cores you insufferable fucking braindead zoomer
