Wii U hacked and CPU clock speed revealed, apparently.

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keroncoward said:

maverick40 said:

Wow this is terrible, the 360 ha a tri core 3.2ghz processor..Well done Nintendo. It is a miracle that 3rd parties got their games to run on your console.

I have a Toshiba Laptop with a 1.5ghz processor and its a lot faster than my previous Dell Laptop with a 2.8ghz processor. Clock Speed does not matter anymore in this day and age. Archetecture is more important.

That's only partially true...

My old work desktop is a 2x X5450 at 3.Ghz ( 2x4 cores = 8 cores)

My new work desktop is 2x E5-2630 at 2.3Ghz with turbo Boost at 2.8Ghz. ( 2x 6 cores = 12 cores)

 

The new CPU is consistently rated about 60% higher on passmark CPU test.

 

The old computer computes prime numbers 50% faster than the new CPU in single thread.

Both computer computes prime numbers at the same speed in full core useage ( 100% of all core going out at full speed).

I wrote the prime numbers executable in both versions, it's pretty simple code...

 

And I have examples of commercial applications running faster on the old computer...

Clock speed does matter, it all depends what kind of complex instructions your app is using and how many threads/processes are running...