Supposedly, Final WiiU Specs from VGLeaks

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curl-6 said:

superchunk said:

curl-6 said:

superchunk said:
So, I read the GAF thread for this and I have to say this though. IF this turns out to be true (we'll only know after it launches and someone tears it down), I will be buying a 2nd console in 2014 when I see defect rate (or lack there of) for neXtBox/PS4. Because there is no way the console defined in the OP will be able to play all 3rd party games at that point.

I'll also realize NO ONE LEARNED A DAMN THING from this last generation. Also, if true.... it better be fucking priced at $250 or less for the a base version. At least in two days we'll know how good or bad the full OS/Online system is as well as pricing.

Surely there's 0% chance it's true; they're putting Mass Effect 3 and Assassin's  Creed 3 on it, those couldn't run on 3 Broadways.

Why not? 3 Broadways with increased clock speed and cache are easily comparable with a X360 CPU, if not a little better.

I was under the impression that Broadway was further behind the 360 CPU than that. My mistake, I guess. (Out of curiosity, about how big is the gap? Would 5 or 6 un-enhanced Broadways rival the 360 CPU?)

But if this was true, it would mean that, power aside, the fundamental design of the Wii U CPU (or each core, at least) would be unchanged since the Gamecube CPU was built in 1999.

Nah, it's way behind. Broadway doesn't support the same instructions, its architeture is way less refined, it lacks logical cores, the extra vector units etc.

The Broadway is some 32 times slower than the Xenos on raw number crunching. Three Broadway cores would need to be clocked at something like 12 GHz to be comparable to the Xenos.

Just so you can compare the Broadway architecture was introduced (in an even less refined way, but still) in 1997 while the Xenos comes from the same Cell architecture IBM released in 2006, nine years later, an eternity as far as computer hardware is concerned so far.