Wii 'U'nder powered?

[thetonestarr]

zarx said:

thetonestarr said:

All we know about the Wii U's technical specs are that:

-it uses a Power7 CPU
-it uses flash memory

Now, the Power7 CPU can be anywhere from approximately equal to the 360 (on the very low end), to as much as four times more powerful (on the extreme high end).

And flash memory as the main storage means much faster load times, which is a technical benefit as well.

Anything beyond that is 100% pure speculation and shouldn't be given any heed to. There were a million rumors about the WiiU and still are, and most of them have already been proven false. Don't add to the shitpile.

A top end Power 7 CPU (which couldn't be used in a console as it is to power hungry and hot) is a hell of a lot more than 4 times more powerful than the 360's CPU. The 360's Xenos has 3 cores at 3.2Ghz and is capable of 2 way multithreading per core allowing it to handle up to 6 hardware threads and has 1MB of L2 cache. The top Power 7 CPU has 8 cores at 4.7Ghz and is capable of 4 threads per core and has 32MB of cache plus has several other optomisations that improve performance. Top power 7 is more like 10x in real world performance but as I said their is no way it would be used in a console...

It's confirmed to be in the WiiU. Confirmed. Meaning it's not a rumor. Meaning it IS being used in a console.