Kynes said:
Zappykins said:
Ok, can someone answer this?
If it actually has this GPU, and since it has 480 shaders to X360's 48 shaders. Does that imply at the same hertz, that it is 10 times as powerful?
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Not really, AMD (ATI) changed the way they counted the shaders, before they were 5-way VLIW shaders, so those 48 X360 shaders are the equivalent to 240 shaders. The E6760 has newer technology (newer compression techniques, compatibility with newer effects, much easier to program for...) and more and faster RAM, so it should be at least 2-3 times more powerful in the graphics department, clock per clock. We don't know the final frequencies, and it's not sure that Nintendo uses this chip, but if they do use it, it's a very good chip for the power envelope that WiiU has.
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I thought they were 4 way shaders, not 5 way? Thus only 192? Although, that could explain another spec number that was coming out to 240.
Thanks for explaining how they count shaders differently. It is a little sneaky of AMD, but I understand why they did it. And it is actually more clear. I knew it couldn't be right (as much as it would have been cool) if the WiiU GPU was ten times more powerful than the X360.
