Intel Tests Chip Design with 80-core Processor

yes i realise its theoretical also but somehow i find 80 cores at over 1 teraflop more believeable than 200gflops out of 8 SPEs. tbh i dont care anyway. i just think the cell is overrated. i like what the ps3 has done with just 60% achieving a game like killzone 2 but 80 cores producing over 1 Teraflop goes well above 4 cell CPUs dude im tellin ya. it was TESTED! that the cell produced 155GFLOPS. cant argue with that

The SPE's can sustain about 98% of their theoretical performance.

Why would you want multi-threaded SPE's? Theres 8 of them. Same reason this 80-core Intel chip doesn't have multi-threaded cores.

And you do know this Teraflop figure for the Intel chip is also theoretical, right?

the cell doesnt attain 200GFLOPS. it was supposed to produce 210GFLOPS approx. but there was a test (not sure if herd) and the test reported that with all 8 SPEs and PPE in action it only produced 155GFLOPS. the 210GFLOPS was untested and just theoretical. the best they could do with the cell is add cores. it can have up to 24 i understand. however the SPEs are single threaded and i think pointless to continue with, however the SPEs are good for huge calculations like super computing

Cell is great for cryptography. Cell processors have branch hinting.

A complete 8 core cell has ~200 GFLOPS performance at 3.2GHz, and they scale up to around the 5GHz range.

Can that run crysis???