By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
oni-link on 13 September 2012
Edit Thread
Play4Fun said:
ninetailschris said:
zarx said:
curl-6 said:
zarx said:
curl-6 said:
I'm still of the opinion that "three Broadways" outs this as fake.

Why in the world would they beef up a CPU based on 1990s technology when it would be much simpler to just to use a modern one, even if it's not the most powerful one money can buy? (Easy backwards compatibility I suppose, but really, doesn't seem worth it) It's like tying three horses together and feeding them steroids instead of just buying a damn car.


Well to be fair it says 3 "enhanced Broadway" cores, enhanced could mean anything including TBH including adding some Power 7 tech to it. Not to say it is real, but IBM did say that it was a custom CPU with tech from Whatson/Power 7. It could be that Nintendo got IBM to create a custom CPU derived from Power 7 but with Broadway feature parity for hardware backwards compatability. If the enhanced Broadway stuff is tru I don't think it would literally mean 3 Broadway cores. 

I guy on GAF who had aparently been mod verified as having access to a Wii U dev kitt said that the term "enhanced Broadway" was used in technical documents from Nintendo. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=41438117&postcount=195

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=41437121&postcount=186

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=36333855&postcount=8989

Could it still be considered a Broadway, enhanced or not, if they aded POWER 7 tech to it? I mean, we're talking about a chip effectively built in 1998 here. Even with 3, wouldn't you have to virtually rebuild it to get it to run a game like Assassin's Creed 3? To stick with the three horses analogy, no matter how many steroids you feed them, they couldn't tow a semitrailer.


Likely they would be closer to power 7 I would think, it's definately got the Power 7 cache and likely the added SMT capabilities, out-of-orderinstruction execution etc. Just with the Broadband's custom instruction set extentions, DMA, etc for backwards compatability. At a wild guess anyway IBM said it was a custom CPU bassed on Power 7 tech so it makes sense for Nintendo to have had it customised to support all the features of Broadway for backwards compatability. While also adding the advanced features of the more modern CPU. 


Looks like Neogaf guy is a fake because most of what he said on there contradicted a lot of what was said on direct.

I believe there using a Power7 like IBM said but has properies of Broadway to have backwared capiabilities.

Uh, no. What the neogaf guy said was pretty much the same thing said by Iwata.

1GB main system memory for games. GPGPU.

The source for that leak even went into that thread and said the info was incomplete (they left out memory for the OS).


The poster was BULLSHIT...got caught with his pants down!!!  Trying to salvage his reputation...too late!!!