SPE's

[bluteng3l]

How many SPE's do you think the ported titles are using and Resistance is using?

White Engine (near cgi real-time quality with cinematic transition) is supposed to use 4 of the 6 for deving.

What do you expect from games using all 6?

 

[gcubed]

ported titles? 1-2 if any

 

[coolguy]

iam sure Resistance is useing more then 2 or 3 even.
its a sony game its its looks great iam sure porst are
justing 1 if we are lucky

 

[uberengl]

i think all games use all spu`s just some use it wrong (ports) and some are on there way to use them right (lair) ... i guess that dev. doing rused port only "say" "hey spu`s here you have my pc code swollow and get done with it"...you know what i mean? its like using diesel on a formula 1 engine

 

[DMB14]

Ports don't just use 1-2. The 360 has 6 CPU threads total and lets say each thread performs a task. The tasks from each of those threads could be given to one SPE each, and use 6 SPEs total. Also the Cell's main core will be helping out and directing the traffic.

A good port will be adapted to run well on the Cell.

 

[skunkworker]

It would not be very smart to not use multiple threads as each spe can have 2 running at the same time
7 SPE's - 1 SPE(OS)= 6 Spe's -- 12 Simultaneous threads at one time.
But probably more multithreaded multiplatform games will be smoother and look better

 

[skulpt]

Hmmm. These days, a "good PS3 port" is an oxymoron.



Brian

[QUOTE="DMB14, post: 0]
A good port will be adapted to run well on the Cell.[/QUOTE]

 

[changing]

Most likely all of them. Just not to their full efficiency, and not for a full frame. So each one might have 'some' idle time each frame.