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ph4nt on 14 June 2011
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zarx said:
ph4nt said:
A Power7 CPU , even scaled down, is significantly more powerful than a Cell, and an R700 GPU blows the PS3 GPU out of the water. Either the rumors are false or this article is full of crap, i'm hoping for the latter since IBM already comfirmed Wii U is using Power7.


could you point me twords where a power 7 architecture was actually confirmed? Because I read the press release and it doesn't actually mention power 7 at all...

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/34683.wss

And a R700 GPU is vague and varies for weaker than the PS3 to ~8 times more powerful and also hasn't been confirmed to be the base of the custom GPU, AMD's press release is even more vague than IBMs.

 

Also it sounds like the hardware platform is very fluid at the moment and final specs have not been settled on yet so any aproximation of it's relative power is pointless at this  stage. 

Oh and from Digital foundy's analysis the Zelda demo was running at 720p with no antialiasing and 30fps, great art design tho

IBM stated that the Wii U processor uses the same architecture that was used in Watson (Power7). Wii U will definitely use a scaled down version, but even that will be significantly more powerful than Cell, heck my dual core outclasses the cell.