Viper1 on 04 April 2012
| AnthonyW86 said: Now this one actually makes sense. Wii U is rumoured to have a cpu compareble to the Xenos cpu of the X360, a PowerPC triple core chip, and a GPU of AMD's HD6xxx generation. Like this article states its only the cpu that seems to be lacking, and if you count in the additional strain that wireless touchscreen controller will have... The same thing happend with Kinect witch is rumoured to use up something like 10% to 20% of the Xbox 360 cpu, leaving less computing power for the developers to work with. |
The irony is that the Wii U CPU was never questioned as being weak. It's based on either Power7 or Power A2. Both are, as their minoker notates, powerful.
And either of those CPU's in a tri-core configuration are more powerful per clock cycle than the Cell and Xenon. Let's not forget you get 4 threads per core and tons of eDRAM.
You'd ahve to work pretty damn hard to make those CPU's weaker than either of the Cell or Xenon.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
