haxxiy said:
HappySqurriel said:
haxxiy said:
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I suspect this means that the Wii U (probably) is using between 40 and 50 Watts, and looking at it I wouldn't be surprised if the GPU is using 30 Watts. This could mean that the GPU could (at best) perform similar to the Radeon HD 7690M XT (TURKS core, 40nm, 25 Watts)
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That would make it nearly twice as powerful as the X360 GPU. Seems spot on from what we've all seen, but the CPU looks like it could be a major bottleneck later on. I'm kind of worried about it. Hopefully they'll pull a F-Zero OK. I'm waiting for it for nine years now...
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Looking just a GFLOPS, the Xenos pushed 240 GFLOPS while the Radeon HD 7690M XT pushes 696 GFLOPS, which would be (almost) 3 times as powerful; but still in the range that everyone was (realistically) expecting.
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Nah. No way then. I must have mistook it for something else. Efficiency per watt of current transistor manufactuing methods doesn't come even close to that. A crude way of measuring how powerful a hardware will be but still. We're looking at 400-450 GFLOPS tops.
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But the 7690M XT is manufactured using a 40nm process, runs at 25 watts, producing 697 GFPLOPS, and averages (roughly) 25 GFLOPS/watt ...
While Nintendo could choose something else, it is entirely possible for them to use a GPU that is similar in performance running with similar energy consumption being that this GPU demonstrates it can be done.
