Viper1 said:
drkohler said:
You are leaving out a few key facts here. For example, the WiiU uses an average of 40W according to Nintendo. That translates into a clock rate for the CPU in the 2.2-2.4GHz region. There are other hints like the fact that some (launch) software is NOT running at 1080p, indicating some CPU starvation. So CPU wise, the performance of the WiiU would only be around 60-80% of a PS3/XBox. However, the heavily modified GPU (I don't think there is any similarity left to the standard ATI 4xxx GPU) makes good for that so WiiUperformance (Whichever way you define "performance") is around 130% of the PS3/XBox as I explained in a precious post. Also my previous estimates for PS4/XBoxNext are still reasonable, based on what we know at this time (and there are enough hints for the XBoxNext). SImply forget that 4-? times more powerful (again the meaning of "power" should actually be defined).
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Are you using just clock rates as the means to surmise performance against the Cell and Xenon?
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Since we don't know what really is inside a WiiU, all we can estimate is based on known facts like 40W power, 45nm design technology, three cores - and compare this with known processors. There is no magic involved here that would suddenly make a 45nm design processor "run like hell" with (probably less) than 20W to burn.
Weird. Just installed Win8 on my newly assembled PC and I can no longer logout on the site...
