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g911turbo said:
ViktorBKK said:
ethomaz said:

Anfebious said:

Weaker than PS3 and 360 or weaker than PS4 and Xbox One?

PS4/Xbone

It is stronger than PS360.


160 ALUs
8 TMUs
8 ROPs

That's below PS360. It was quite obvious that the Wii U is inferior to PS360 actually. 40/45 nm iterations of both the PS3 & X360 burn twice as much power as the Wii U which is also 40/45 nm. Sure the Wii U gpu might support a couple extra features since it is newer but that's about it.


Yes, it is below the PS360 in terms of power consumption.  That's a good thing.


So what your saying that the Wii U will be irrelevant within a year or so.



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ViktorBKK said:
ethomaz said:

Anfebious said:

Weaker than PS3 and 360 or weaker than PS4 and Xbox One?

PS4/Xbone

It is stronger than PS360.


160 ALUs
8 TMUs
8 ROPs

That's below PS360. It was quite obvious that the Wii U is inferior to PS360 actually. 40/45 nm iterations of both the PS3 & X360 burn twice as much power as the Wii U which is also 40/45 nm. Sure the Wii U gpu might support a couple extra features since it is newer but that's about it.

Come on....my iPad "burns" 1/20 the power of a 386.  I guess the 386 is 20 times stronger than the iPad.  Keep in mind those huge fans in the PS360 take a chuck of that "burn".  Anyone that states the power of the system based solely on it's power supply looks rather foolish.





Stop hating and start playing.

Whatever



Pavolink said:

7450-7470? I remember first rumors about a 4850. Is this good or bad?

I got the more close specs in AMD chartz... HD 4850 is a different arch... Wii U uses a GCN GPU.



PS3 would be 52 ALU ops * 4 floats per op *2 (madd) * 550 MHz = 228.8 GFLOPS

Xbox 360′s 48 ALU ops * 5 floats per op * 2 (madd) * 500 MHz= 240 GFLOPS.

Wii u 8 shader units with 20 alus in each = 160ALUs @ 550mhz =176gflop



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sonic321 said:
PS3 would be 52 ALU ops * 4 floats per op *2 (madd) * 550 MHz = 228.8 GFLOPS

Xbox 360′s 48 ALU ops * 5 floats per op * 2 (madd) * 500 MHz= 240 GFLOPS.

Wii u 8 shader units with 20 alus in each = 160ALUs @ 550mhz =176gflop

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Either way, the power of the WiiU isn't holding it back.  It's the ripped off feeling casulas had after 3-4 months of playing on the Wii.  My Wii still gets used alot(my kids), but almost everyone I know either threw theirs away or has it in a box or closet.  The perception is when I ask around is that the WiiU is the Wii with a special controller.  It's not about power, it's about perception.



It is near the end of the end....

How can one person say it's twice as strong as the PS3/360 and another say it's weaker than them. Let's try to agree on it cause it does not us who have no idea what they mean. Thing is it looks better than last gen to me from the potential I've seen, just not that much better tbf



kopstudent89 said:
How can one person say it's twice as strong as the PS3/360 and another say it's weaker than them. Let's try to agree on it cause it does not us who have no idea what they mean. Thing is it looks better than last gen to me from the potential I've seen, just not that much better tbf


it's basically a 360 with more ram, it's a sorry excuse for a nextgen console, your paying for last gen tech and no real third party support to boot.



lol raw power means nothing when comparing to last gen.

Even look at the CPUs form last gen they were faster (clock speed wise) than WiiU/PS4/ONE yet their CPUs are much better and more efficient.

Saying all that, obviously the Wii U is not in the same league as a ONE or PS4 and is closer to last gen.



 

 

kopstudent89 said:
How can one person say it's twice as strong as the PS3/360 and another say it's weaker than them. Let's try to agree on it cause it does not us who have no idea what they mean. Thing is it looks better than last gen to me from the potential I've seen, just not that much better tbf


It's Gaf and the internet, the U basically uses a propriety GPU which was developed by AMD (possibly using traits and features of various existing GPUs) and people over there have been trying to look smart by saying this is that and so on when truth is no one knows what the GPU is or whether it's based on anything out which by the looks of the image from months ago it isn't hence why it's the most espensive component in the console and why the are all sorts of conflicting speculation from so called experts.