Was the Toshiba running a encoder that was written from scratch specifically for its chips? (almost would have to be)
And was the Intel Quad core running a generic X86 architecture encoder on vista or was it some optimized code written by Intel?
Because if it was optimized code vs unoptimized code of course the Toshiba would win just like the old optimized Intel, and AMD Divx codec would beat the pants off the generic X86 Dixv codec that was available at the time.
This is like trying to compare the taste of a juicy sweet apple to the taste of some animal's innards.
It'd be interesting to see the performance of the Cell chip emulating an x86 processor running Windows/Linux/MacOS.
It may have done a half-decent job of encoding video, but it'd have been more meaningful to compare the performance of Toshiba's Cell chip to the latest from nVidia or AMD/ATI.
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Toshiba Cell-based GPU trounces quad-core CPU
Anonymous Coward
So in summary... #
Posted Monday 9th June 2008 18:06 GMT
A Cell-based CPU, with less than half the clock speed, and half the number of SPU cores, as the PS3's Cell chip, whipped a quad-core based PC...
Sweet...
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Kevin
Question #
Posted Monday 9th June 2008 19:18 GMT
Was the Toshiba running a encoder that was written from scratch specifically for its chips? (almost would have to be)
And was the Intel Quad core running a generic X86 architecture encoder on vista or was it some optimized code written by Intel?
Because if it was optimized code vs unoptimized code of course the Toshiba would win just like the old optimized Intel, and AMD Divx codec would beat the pants off the generic X86 Dixv codec that was available at the time.
Rich Turner
Apples != Offal #
Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 08:59 GMT
This is like trying to compare the taste of a juicy sweet apple to the taste of some animal's innards.
It'd be interesting to see the performance of the Cell chip emulating an x86 processor running Windows/Linux/MacOS.
It may have done a half-decent job of encoding video, but it'd have been more meaningful to compare the performance of Toshiba's Cell chip to the latest from nVidia or AMD/ATI.
Paris because she too is difficult to compare to a human female!
Anonymous Coward
Tesla #
Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 10:27 GMT
Why not test it against an Nvidia tesla card?
chris
What were they using to encode? #
Posted Wednesday 11th June 2008 09:40 GMT
was it vista and nero or an actual quick encoder like mencoder/transcode in linux?