For Gaming, And General Multi tasking, which is beter, the Cell, Or Quad Core?

May be...

Just answered earlier....



Both are different architectures... Cell is optimized for gaming whereas a Quad Core is mainly used for an OS. The Cell has 8 cores (or SPE's).... In terms of calculations performed per second... A Cell is damn fast. The main use of processor is for multi-threaded purposes (meaning running the applications faster)... A Quad core only supports the GPU for graphical intensive purposes whereas the Cell can itself turn into a GPU if required... Hence even though a PS3 only has 256MB GPU, it can run the best looking games like Killzone 2, Uncharted 2 (just see the video... mind blowing), MGS4...



In short both cannot be compared. In OS running purposes, Quad Core is the best whereas a CELL is a processor created from scratch only for gaming.



Go to below link for a few common comparisons between a Quad core, A Cell and a 360 Xenon processor.

The Cell processor. But seeing as how I don't think it's possible to get a PC outfitted with the PS3's cell processor, you should get a quad core that's 64-bit.

The cell.