Supposedly, Final WiiU Specs from VGLeaks

[HappySqurriel]

drkohler said:

HapySqurriel said:

It seems to me that talking about how great the performance from memory is could come from stripping out half of the cores but leaving their memory controllers in place and having the chip run in TuroboCore mode. A 3/4 core chip with 6/8 memory controllers to be used by 12/16 threads would be relatively impressive, affordable and low energy consumption processor; and its memory bandwidth would be substantially better than either the XBox 360 or PS3's CPUs.

There is no way there ae 6/8 memory controllers (and threads have nothing to do with them). Typically memory controllers are 64 bit and there is no way WiiU has such a wide bus (makes mainboard way too expensive). Given the reported power brick of the WiiU says 75W on it, these "final specs" seem to agree with that.

You don't seem to understand the Power 7 processor do you ...

Each core supports 4 threads and in a typical Power 7 processor each core has 1 memory controller, and the processor comes with 4, 6 or 8 cores. In the 8 core model you can disable 4 of the cores and the other 4 cores will use their memory controllers, resulting in having 4 cores each having 2 memory controllers while running 4 threads. Hypothetically speaking you could permanently "disable" 4 cores from this processor and constantly run in TurboCore mode.

The power 7 is a (relatively) low power processor especially the 4 core model running at 3GHz. Being that the Wii U has already been confirmed to be using the Power 7 it is likely that they're using something similar to the 4 core model running at 3GHz.