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Miyamotoo on 31 May 2017
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Dark_Feanor said:
F.Scofield said:
above x360, under ps3.
ps3 cpu is still a beast,architecture aside is still above ps4's cpu.

How do you know that?

That is a completly inacurated statement.

Any modern CPU, including Tegra X1, has vast superior features that the CELL couldn´t even dream of.

He is right, PS3 CPU was beast and in some tasks its stronger than PS4 Jaguar CPU if comparing core per core. People dont realise but PS4/XB1 Jaguar CPU is not strong and it's actually bottleneck for PS4/XB1 hardware.

 

 

ABizzel1 said:

There's no real way to directly compare the Switch CPU with the last-gen consoles, because they use completely different architectures.

However if you're going to try, last-gen CPUs ranked like this PS3 > Xbox 360 > Wii U.

The Wii U's CPU was much weaker than the PS3 and 360, what made it competitive was having a newer architecture and having OoOE, but even then it was still weaker. The Wii U had a 3-core 1.24 GHZ processor, Xbox 360 has a 3-Core / 6 thread 3.2 GHz processor, and PS3 had the Cell which was a completely unique setup best explained as a PPE (aka 1-Core) / 8 SPE (aka 8 super threads) 3.2GHz processor (however, 1 SPE was disabled and another for OS).

The Switch is using a mobile CPU, 4-core ARM Cortex A57 at 1.02 GHz with OoOE. Core for core it should be be in a similar ballpark as the Wii U's Espresso CPU obviously with an additional core to use. It also has more current architecture which helps it even more.

If I were to guess I would say the rankings are like this.

PS3 > Xbox 360 = Switch > Wii U

 

There are more things we need to know like the Instruction set for all 4, channels, memory bus, and more, but based on what we do know that's my hypothesis.

Point that Wii U CPU and Switch CPU have 1GHz don't mean nothing because you comparing basically upgraded GameCube CPU tech/architecture with ARM tech/architecture from 2014, on same clock A57 is more capable and more stronger even PS4 Jaguar CPU, and its more capable than Xbox 360 even on 1GHz.

Here you have comparison of AMD 4-core Jaguar and ARM 4-core A15, have on mind that A57 is 4 years newer CPU and much more capable than ARM A15.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/SoC-Shootout-x86-vs-ARM.99496.0.html