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More than a toy, PlayStation 3 does Linux (InfoWorld)More than a toy, PlayStation 3 does Linux (InfoWorld)Posted Nov 25, 2006 15:18 UTC (Sat) by shimpei (guest, #11634)In reply to: More than a toy, PlayStation 3 does Linux (InfoWorld) by augustm Parent article: More than a toy, PlayStation 3 does Linux (InfoWorld)
Well, the paper does show that 8 SPEs can turn in 15-20x performance of a single-core Opteron, which translates to 12-15x performance for the 6 user-accessible SPEs on a PS3. The problem is, his Opteron code does not use SSE! If SSE is correctly utilized on the Opteron, who knows what the gap will be?
Mind you, I do own a PS3 and I'd love to see its potential proven, but I do not think this article was terribly useful as a x86-vs-Cell benchmark.
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