Wii U hacked and CPU clock speed revealed, apparently.

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Soleron said:

curl-6 said:
Ah, the Megahertz Myth. I remember this old fallacy from back in the 90s, and I can't believe people STILL think clock speed = power.

Each Wii U core takes up no more than 1/3 of the area of a 360 core. It is therefore not faster per-clock, unless a miracle happened at IBM. Performance = clock speed * performance per clock (approximately, yes it's a tautology).

To use an example from the 90s, would you rather have a 600MHz Pentium III or a 1.6GHz Pentium 4? The Pentium III was faster per-clock, but the difference is so big that you'd obviously get the P4.

Size is also not necessarily a cast-iron indicator of power; there's other factors. (Latency, GPGPU) This hacker fellow already said that comparing it to the 360 CPU and surmising it's much weaker is a mistake.