Viper1 said:
As did the fact you never replied to my post. I already told you the gap would not be as big because the architectural factors involved were what made it so big between Wii and PS3/X360 in the first place, not just specs. That architectural factor is not longer in place. Nor will the actual spec gap be as large. It's not just how many cores you have or even how fast they run but what you do with those cores that make a difference. Put a 4 core Ivy Bridge against a 4 core Kentsfield and you'll see what I'm talking about. With Wii U you get modern Instruction sets, 4 way SMT, OoOO, and more. |
Wii U's CPU is basically confirmed as part of the Intel Watson family. Although not 8 cores. Its 3 cores but the watson computer has 4 threads per core.
Its using a Power 7 Intel Watson CPU scaled down. 3 cores probably 4 threads per core as te Watson computer is 4 treads per core.
720 is said to be ( based on leaked info and EBAY listings for its dev kits ) to be a better Processor than Power 7 and be a huge 16 core, 4 thread per core CPU at 3.2gz per core. Hugely more potential than Wii U. And a much bigger gap than Wii to 360. Developers who write PS3 exclusives and 360 exclusives have been taking advantge of 6 threads or more for 2 years now. They are programming that way alot more for the HD twins. Wit all devs saying the 512 mb ram is olding these machines back. And that 360 and PS3 could do alot better with just more ram. See ID software, EA and Crytek.
Also Wii U has 1.5 gb ram.
720 dev kits ave 12 gb ram. So its looking like 6 gb ram. Considering developers want as muc ram as possible and say that is actually te key to muc improved grapics as much as a great GPU, Wii U will be as I fully expect a long way behind next gen. Especially considering Epic claim Samaritan will be easily doable next gen.
I dont even expect Wii U to be able to handle Watcdogs. Let alone Samaritan level stuff.
