SpursEngine - Cell Processor based add-on boards coming soon?

[TheBluePill]

http://www.engadget.com/tag/spursengine

Looks like a 4-core Cell processor add-on might be available soon to boost graphics performance in conjuction with your CPU-GPU. With a price tag of $50, it looks to be quite a deal too.. interesting..

 

[Atherton213]

hmmmm for $50 thats something i could try.... unlike the physix cards that were $2-300

 

[GushpinBob]

So it's like a coprocessor for a coprocessor (aka your GPU). Okay ...

 

[RamonGTP]

If this product has a successful launch, it could be what finally gets GPU based physics off the ground. The Cell is basically a vector processor which from what I've read, is ideal for physics calculations.

 

[refraxion]

I'd definitely give this a go if it were to be 50 bucks

 

[SharpieFiend]

With Intel doing 6 core processors by year end, is a product like this really necessary? We currently don't utilize all of the power a quad core processor delivers so adding even more processing power doesn't make a lot of sense.

 

[RamonGTP]

With Intel doing 6 core processors by year end, is a product like this really necessary? We currently don't utilize all of the power a quad core processor delivers so adding even more processing power doesn't make a lot of sense.

I thought the same thing at one point but becuase Intel CPU's are general purpose processors and GPU's as well as other processors like them are very specific in their task and are way more powerfull for that particular task than even multi-core general purpose cores are.