Question Q9500 vs cell playstation 3

[greatzalman]

Hi,
is cpu quad core Q9500 more powerfull than cpu cell of Playstion 3 or not ?

 

[Gam3r01]

Thats a tough comparison to make, as their architectures and utilization were vastly different.
Is there a specific reason you are comparing them? That may help out a bit.

In terms of arbitrary raw performance (GFLOPS) the Q9500 musters about 70 or so, where the PS3 hits around 230GFLOPS.
That said, that is not a direct measure of performance.

 

[hotaru.hino]

In terms of raw performance, no. However, the Cell's performance shines only in applications that are fairly simple and straight forward. This makes it more akin to how you should program for a GPU than a CPU, and why GPUs can't really be used to run say an OS (you could, but it'd just be really slow). And that's grossly simplifying things.

I recommend reading https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation-3/ to get an idea of how the Cell works.

 

[lvt]

Hi,
is cpu quad core Q9500 more powerfull than cpu cell of Playstion 3 or not ?

The CPU alone doesn't determine the performance of a system.

As the Playstation 3 is a gaming device, we should put the Q9500 in a gaming PC to compare.

The Playstaion 3's GPU is based on a Geforce 7, an AGP era GPU while on a PC with the Q9500 you can use more powerful PCI-E video cards (to make long story short, the PCI-E is 4 times faster than AGP).

Moreover, if you have the Q9500 on a motherboard, you can upgrade the CPU to Q9650 for even better performance and the PCI-E video card can be upgraded as well (things that can't be done on the PS3).

 

[greatzalman]

Thanks.

My system is:
cpu q9500
ddr2, 8 gb ram
ssd 120 gb
Asus gt 730 2gb gddr5

Is my system more powerfull than playstation 3 for games ?

 

[hotaru.hino]

Thanks.

My system is:
cpu q9500
ddr2, 8 gb ram
ssd 120 gb
Asus gt 730 2gb gddr5

Is my system more powerfull than playstation 3 for games ?

The graphics are more powerful, but the CPU is not.

What are you trying to get at? There's no real point in comparing consoles to PC gaming hardware.

 

[greatzalman]

The graphics are more powerful, but the CPU is not.

So, is my cpu q9500 equal to cell cpu of playstation 3 in power ? I am talking ONLY power in game ! Is it so difficult tell me if cpu q9500 is equal in power to the cpu of playstion 3 ? They are both cpu ! I am not comparing salami with cheese 😏

 

[hotaru.hino]

So, is my cpu q9500 equal to cell cpu of playstation 3 in power ? I am talking ONLY power in game ! Is it so difficult tell me if cpu q9500 is equal in power to the cpu of playstion 3 ? They are both cpu ! I am not comparing salami with cheese 😏

Why does it matter whether or not your CPU is more powerful than a PS3?

If it's for an academic curiosity, the answer is no. Your CPU is worse than the PS3's Cell, if we define power as how many FLOPS its capable of.

 

[greatzalman]

Your CPU is worse than the PS3's Cell

Ok, thanks. Could you tell in % ?
Which cpu is equal in power game with PS3's cell ?

 

[greatzalman]

I have found this comment here:

"I built my computer last year, and its been doing just a bit better that my ps3 or xbox graphics wise. It's a quad core 2.4ghz., 4 gigs of ram, and a 9500gt."

PC hardware equivalent to a 360 or PS3 - PC - Giant Bomb

This has probably been discussed before but hey.... So what PC setup would come the closest to resembling the performance of the 360? Also, same th

www.giantbomb.com

Is it true for you? A quad core 2.4ghz is more powerfull than cell cpu ?

 

[hotaru.hino]

If you define power as the "GFLOPS" rating, then again, no the Core 2 Q9500 is not as powerful. It can at best get 90GFLOPS using SSE3 instructions. The Cell in the PS3 can get 179GLFOPS if all the SPEs and PPEs are working. You can do the math from there.

However GFLOPS is not a good indicator of performance for things like running a game, and it's not easy to determine which one is "better" in that regard. And the PS3 was hard to program effectively for, so it's even harder to determine if apparently poor in-game performance was due to the developer not making the most out of the PS3's hardware.

Again, it's pointless to try to compare consoles to PC gaming.

 

[KananX]

It doesn’t matter which CPU is faster here, if you use a better GPU than the 7800 GT-ish GPU of the PS3 that is ancient at this point, you will have higher performance and better graphics. And your CPU is way slower btw. PS3 CPUs were used to build a supercomputer. You shouldn’t care about that though.

 

[greatzalman]

Thanks for answers, great forum !