| snowdog said: On paper it's around 3 times more powerful than the 360 - 3MB CPU cache compared to 1MB CPU cache, a modern architecture for the CPU, 4 times as much RAM, slightly more than 3 times more eDRAM on the GPU (32MB compared to 10MB) which also has the advantage of being on-die, a GPU that has a DX11 equivalent feature set rather than the DX9 feature set that Xenos has. In real-world performance it should be around 4 times more powerful given that the CPU doesn't have to deal with sound and IO thanks to having dedicated silicon to do the job as well as the CPU having Out-Of-Order Execution, which means less wasted clock cycles and more effeciency. We'll probably see the PS4 and 720 being 2-3x more powerful than the U, meaning we'll have the 8th gen being similar to the 6th gen with all 3 consoles being in the same sort of ballpark in terms of power. |
In the paper the Wii U is not 3 times better... what we have in the paper.
CPU (Espresso x Xenon): You can say the Expresso have a better IPC than Xenon... that's true but the Xenon have almost three time the speed of the Expresso and can run 2 threads per core... yeap the Xenon takes that easily.
Xenon won by a good margin.
Memory: Wii U have more memory but it's ways slow... sorry but it's harder to say what is better... for GPU it's better to have a faster memory than a lot of memory... I think both have the pros and cons... and Wii U have just 2x the memory of 360... not 4x like everyone here things (just 1GB is for games).
Tie.
GPU (Espresso x Xenos): The Wii U takes the leap here... the GPU is better and more advanced but it's a high-end GPU... it's a mid to low-end GPU (PC comparision). The clock is almost the same... so what will define how much the GPU is better is the other specs like SPs, ROPs, TMUs, etc... so what I read until now (and the size comparision) the GPU is at max 2x better than the 360's CPU.
Espresso won by a good margin (2x)
CONCLUSION
In the paper the Wii hardware is not even 2x better than the 360 hardware... it have better and worst components... overall I believe the Wii U is 1.5x better than X360 but just for you not says I'm biased...
Wii U is 1.7-1.8x better than X360 in the paper.
3x or over that is just delusional.
PS. The Wii's CPU is not modern... it's a 10 years old (or more) architecture... the same architecture used in X360's CPU.
