Quote: "A Super Computer has a Power Index of 10 Terraflops. The xbox Has A power Index of 1 terraflop..... SWEET! and 3x 3.2Ghx Processors. Thats 9.6GHz. Goodbye Sony! "
No a 3Core 3.2GHz Processor != 9.6GHz
All it means is it can process triple the data throughput.
So your looking at an increase of possible operations rather than possible processing speed.
Just means it can calculate 6 Operations Every Second, instead of the usual 1.
Desktop Intel Processors calculate 4 Operations Per Second, and AMD Processors calculate 7 Operations Per Second.
Those are with single Cores. So the only difference your looking at is the throughput, particularly given that, standard Intel/AMD Processors are only Single Thread Processing.. while Intel HT do allowed for Dual Threading to take place, this only enhances things by allowing threads to take up more of the processing power.
The 3Core allows you to have 3 Threads at once.
Further-more, 3.2GHz sounds impressive enough; but remember
Intel Pentium 4 2.52GHz HT = AMD AthlonXP 1.8GHz (2600+)
Actualy GHz processing power doesn't actually equate to the physical processing power.. Namely because the Core is restricted to using the same resources as the other Core's in the processor, this means that you drop speed unlike a Triple Processor Solution.
The difference if we use AMD Processors would be:
AMD AthlonXP 2.2 GHz (3000+)
AMD AthlonXP 2.2 GHz Dual Core (4200+)
AMD AthlonXP 2.2 GHz Dual Processors (4600+)
I use that because the figures are correct as of AMD.com
While this can almost half compression time, and double FPS; the actual processing capacity isn't double what the processor is originally capable of.
