# PS3 (cell based gpu), meet PC?
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**Created:** [October 1, 2008, 12:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-cell-based-gpu-meet-pc/55784 "2008-10-01T12:25:57Z")
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2008, 12:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-cell-based-gpu-meet-pc/55784/1 "2008-10-01T12:25:57Z")
> **[PC Video Cards With Toshiba’s SpursEngine Coming Soon](https://www.pcworld.com/article/536957/toshiba_video_chip.html)**
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> PC video cards based on Toshiba's SpursEngine video chip will hit the market soon.
> The first add-in video cards based on Toshiba’s SpursEngine video chip will soon hit the market, as the company looks to tap growing user interest in high-definition video.
> Based on the same Cell processor architecture as the chip used in Sony Computer Entertainment’s PlayStation 3 console, the SpursEngine was released earlier this year. Designed to process high-definition video, the SpursEngine chip has four Cell cores. The first computers to include the chip, Toshiba’s [Qosmio G50](http://www.pcworld.com/tags/Toshiba+Qosmio.html) and F40 laptops, were unveiled in June.
> Leadtek and Thomson both plan to introduce add-in video cards based on SpursEngine in the coming weeks. Leadtek’s card will arrive later this month, and will cost around ¥30,000 (US$286). Thomson’s cards will arrive in November, and are expected to cost from ¥40,000 to ¥50,000.
> SpursEngine is capable of encoding or decoding high-definition video thanks to hardware MPEG2 and H.264 codecs and can upscale standard-definition video to high-definition on the fly, without tying up the computer’s microprocessor.
> Card makers hope SpursEngine cards will find a home in PCs based on low-cost processors, such as Intel’s Celeron line, to offer high-end video capabilities.
> Leadtek showed off its card, the Winfast PxVC 1100, at the Ceatec exhibition in Chiba, Japan. The PCI Express card, which has 128M bytes of high-performance XDR memory, fit easily into a small form-factor desktop and needed only a small heatsink and fan to keep it cool.
> A Leadtek representative manning the booth said the company hopes to use passive cooling for the cards instead of a fan when they are released, but that has yet to be finalized.
ok, so it sounds like a dedicated video card, only for HD encoding/decoding? Ummm… for the price they’re listing, what is the advantage of something like this over, say, an nvidia purevideo enabled card?
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### Author:  [@CornyKorn21](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/CornyKorn21)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-cell-based-gpu-meet-pc/55784/2 "2008-10-01T12:41:41Z")
No fun advantage unless they’re giving me something like NVidia’s CUDA SDK…
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### Author:  [@Drexial](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Drexial)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-cell-based-gpu-meet-pc/55784/3 "2008-10-01T20:38:36Z")
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z48089sYvvo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z48089sYvvo) this seems much cooler then what they are talking about there.