Re: Cell Processor performance - upto 100x Intel Xeon in certain operations

From: Maynard Handley (name99_at_name99.org)
Date: 06/13/05 

Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:48:50 GMT

In article <krmdnRsF8vsaIjDfRVn-gA@comcast.com>, <Rage6c> wrote:

NEWSFLASH: Chip optimized for task X performs better at task X than chip
optimized for task Y.

Idiot.

> These are a lot of slides, but this is a normalized comparision between an
> Intel Xeon processor (pumped up Pentium 4) to Cell in what's known as a
> Fourier Fast Transform. At a 256 point FFT each SPE is slightly more
> powerful than an entire Xeon making Cell as a whole greater than 7x faster
> than the Intel chip. Under the circumstances of the 16 million point FFT,
> there's no competition. 100x faster. Xeon ran out of bandwidth and
> computational resources. Cell kept on going.
>
>
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