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Squilliam on 09 April 2012
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zarx said:

Yup

IBM straight up said it was pruducing the CPU at 45nm, so that is 100% confirmed

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

And 28nm yeilds are still low and wafers are very expensive so 40nm is the only real choice for the GPU that is virtually confirmed as well, there are no foundries capable of producing the 2 million odd GPUs they will need this year. Hell they can barely produce enough for top end GPUs at the moment.

There is no magic wand that Nintendo can wave arround to change physics ether, if they wanted a very powerful console they would have had to make the box bigger.

Yep I believe wishful thinking always trumps physics and financial constraints until the point where reality becomes undeniable.

yep

Stefan.De.Machtige said:

The bolded part is the only thing we know for sure. Where did Nintendo confirm the two other factors?

They confirmed the size and from that we can infer the power consumption. Bigger = more heat disipation potential, smaller = less.

HappySqurriel said:


The Radeon 6990M uses the 40nm process (and all the Radeon 7XXXM GPUs are rumoured to use the 40nm process) and it is substantially more powerful than the XBox 360 GPU; and it still operates under similar size constraints to the Wii U.

I'm not going to argue about what the Wii U's hardware capabilities will be being that we will have a fairly good idea in a few weeks; but I think that the people who are foolish to believe that it couldn't be more powerful than the HD consoles are in for a surprise.

I didn't say it was less than the HD consoles. It really depends on where you set par as to whether you think the Wii U is sub-par. If you set par at say 3-4* more powerful than the Xbox 360 then you'd have to say the Wii U is likely to be sub par.

There is no good reason to come out with cherry-picked examples of chips which are far more expensive than the Wii U GPU and are considered some of the best chips in a large batch tuned for a mobile platform. There are no salvage parts and voltages/clock speeds must be set at an average which allows for the best yields with respect to cost, speed and cooling requirements. There will always be chips that perform better than spec, however spec must be set at a reasonable level in order to have a more cost-effective console.



Tease.