| selnor said: 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. |
Take a look at any IBM roadmap and the only thing in line for a 16 core CPU is the A2 chip. Guess what? That's the same chip rumored to be in the Wii U and it's most certainly not better than Power 7. And if they are thinking that Power8 might have a 16 core derivative, they are insane. Size, heat, cost, server silicon...
RAM...6 GB. And they'd never use it. Did they need more than 512 MB last generation? Yes. Do they need 6 GB? No. That's just silly. 4 GB is more than plenty. After that, it's just a waste....unless they plan to use it for a video editing feature or something.
In other words, while the Durango kit might have been real, the final hardware won't reach the peaks of fanboy wet dreams. Money, necessity, physics, reality....it all points to NO.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
