Black Ops 2 Launch Guide (Wii U 720p 60fps, 360/ps3 SUB-HD)

[Squilliam]

cunger said:

Squilliam said:

Yes the Wii U is efficient but that does not in any way make it powerful. The next generation consoles from Microsoft and Sony are going to be both more efficiently designed and more powerful than the Wii U and this is likely in the order of 4-6 times. So from this perspective it is appropriate to say that people won't really care that the Wii U is more capable than the Xbox 360 and PS3 especially given the fact that a significant proportion of the advantage will be wasted on the new development paradigms which come about as more performance is made available as a baseline. 

That sounds to be completely off..  The next generation systems are said to only be 6 or 7 times more powerfully than their current gen counterparts which put them roughly 3 times as powerfull as the wiiu.. last gen they has systems 10 times as powerfull as Nintendo.  It won't be the same situation by a long shot.

The die size of a Geforce 7900GTX is 196mm^2 and it has 300M transistors and it is clocked at 650Mhz whereas a modern 7870 has 2.8B transistors @ 212mm^2 and clocks at 1Ghz. A lot can change in 7 years as you can possibly imagine and the GPU in the Xbox 360 is a mere 200M transistors so one fairly modern and doable graphics cores has 14* the transistors, 12* the flops and 6* the memory bandwidth. This is a GPU which is the exact same size as the one which launched in the Xbox 360 so it doesn't take a huge leap of faith to think of it as a solid contender. Given the fact that the CPU is likely to be quite efficient and low power it stands to reason that a reasonable console which consumes ~ 140W could be released with this GPU inside. The next generation consoles won't be slackers from a performance stand-point and it does stand to good reason that given a significantly higher power budget and more modern processors it'll yield 4-6 times higher performance than the Wii U.