Wii U hacked and CPU clock speed revealed, apparently.

[timmah]

HoloDust said:

timmah said:

Also, the early tech demos (japanese garden rendered and the Zelda demo rendered separately on two screens) could certainly not have been done on a 'weak' piece of hardware.

And Trine 2 is beautiful, the fact that it was done by a low budget studio is pretty amazing.

You may notice from latest DF Face-offs that where WiiU is choking and heavily dropping in performance are scenes with lot of characters - so lot of AI, which is run on CPU, and will stay on CPU for a long time. Though CPU is not that great, GPU is decent, with some 2-3 time shader performance of PS360 (though there is still uncertainty is it based on Turks (480:24:8), Redwood (400:20:8) or, as some suggest Redwood LE (320:16:8)), so games like Trine 2, that are quite GPU heavy, will look better on it (as they'll be using those shaders to full potential).

My specific experience with BLOPS2 was that it had a couple minor issues during one heavy action scene, but seemed to handle equally crazy scenes later on in that same level just fine. What was strange was, the worst framerate issue I saw was during a cutscene when there was absolutely nothing going on, so I chalk some of this up to poor optimization. I still think it's just too early to pass judgment. If the same thing had held true for the PS3 based on some early games, you never would have seen amazing looking titles like the Uncharted games for example.