The cell as designed is an octocore system but as utilized in the PS3 it is only a 7 core system. While the cell is a great multimedia chip, it's usefulness for actual game play and RAM pooling issues mean we have yet to see how much potential the system has from a graphics standpoint btw the 360 is running three cores that each process 2 threads per core thus making the 360 virtually a 6 core system.
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The cell as designed is an octocore system but as utilized in the PS3 it is only a 7 core system. While the cell is a great multimedia chip, it's usefulness for actual game play and RAM pooling issues mean we have yet to see how much potential the system has from a graphics standpoint
btw the 360 is running three cores that each process 2 threads per core thus making the 360 virtually a 6 core system.