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by devbug 2225 days ago
The key differentiator is x86 vs PPC and 1 TB/s bus.
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PPC was ok, the killer was that you had to write code specifically for the Cell (co)processors and their limited memory addressing if you wanted the promised compute performance.
> 1 TB/s bus

Is that the new marketing term for shared VRAM?