| Played_Out said: @ Summaro400ex The Wii is approximately 50% more powerful than the Gamecube. The CPU and GPU are essentially the same, but clocked 50% higher, and it has almost twice as much RAM. |
This is actually not true ...
One of the few things we actually know about the Wii's hardware is the die-size of the CPU and GPU are half of what the die-size of the Gekko and Flipper were on the Gamecube, and the Wii CPU and GPU are using a 90nm process rather than the 180nm process that the Gekko and Flipper (initially) used. If the Hollywood (GPU) and Broadway (CPU) were "Essentially the same" you would expect them to have 1/4 the die size of the Flipper and Gekko.
To put it another way, we know Nintendo made improvements but we don't know what the improvements were. Reasonable speculation is that Nintendo doubled the number of pixel pipelines and TEV units on the 'Hollywood' GPU, while doubling the L2 cache and increasing the instruction set on the 'Broadway' CPU; the end result is that both the GPU and CPU would be much more powerful per cycle than the Flipper and Gekko processors were.
