Wii U vs PS4 vs Xbox One FULL SPECS (January 24, 2014)

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JEMC said:

HappySqurriel said:
For Sony and Microsoft I would expect their entire systems to run in the 80-120 Watt range, with the CPU accounting for (roughly) 1/3 of that and the GPU accounting for the other (roughly) 2/3. This would put the CPU using roughly 25 to 40 Watts, and the GPU using roughly 55 to 80 watts.

To put some perspective here, let me post this wikipedia info

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_hardware#List_of_revisions

 

Codename	CPU	GPU	HDMI	Power Supply	In Production	Date Released
Xenon	90 nm	90 nm	No	203 W	No	November 2005
Zephyr	90 nm	90 nm	Yes	203 W	No	July 2007
Falcon	65 nm	90 nm	Yes	175 W	No	Late September 2007
Opus	65 nm	90 nm	No	175 W	No	June 2008
Jasper	65 nm	65 nm	Yes	150 W	No	September 2008
Trinity (Valhalla)	45 nm (combined "Vejle" chip)[27]	Yes	135 W	No	June 2010
Corona	45 nm (combined chip)[28]	Yes	115 W	Yes	August 2011

The first Xbox360 used +200W and the newest one, with all the optimizations, the single chip for both the CPU and GPU, etc still uses more than 100W.

Even including the efficency of the power supply, that's still a lot.

That is a lot, but that wattage is for the entire system. Not just the CPU or GPU. You have to figure all the other components, HDD, DVD, ports, memory, etc use AT LEAST 25% to 30% of that. So at launch, the MAX I'd see for CPU and GPU is 150W.

Some of these GPUs and CPUs being tossed out here in this thread would have no conceivable way to acheive that without a dramatic increase in total wattage.