Cell Die Photo
The first Cell implementations have shown
industry-leadership frequency and performance. Some Cell statistics:
- Observed clock speed: a wide range
of operating frequencies are supported to optimize for
power and yield;
- Peak performance (single
precision): > 256 GFlops
- Peak performance (double
precision): >26 GFlops
- Local storage size per SPU: 256KB
- Area: 221 mm˛
- Technology 90nm SOI
- Total number of transistors: 234M
