| ethomaz said:
Sorry but it's not anything new made by IBM... it's not Watson or anything else... it's the same architecture used in Broadway. It is an improved Broadway... with the same pros and cons... you can say you want the architecture is the same... you have a lot of K10 (first Phenom) processor from AMD: two-core, three-core, quad-core, more cache, less cache, more clock, less clock but in the end it's the same architecture... there is no miracle. The Wii U's CPU is a tri-core Wii's CPU with more clock and cache. I think the Wii U's CPU is at max 4x better than the Wii's CPU... considering all factors (and the multhreaded use of all cores)... cores, cache, speed, etc... and you can made a direct comparision because it's the same architecture... it's not Pentium 3 low clock is better than Pentium 4 high clock. The Wii U's CPU is weak, slow and dated. |
... and I'm pretty sure it was designed to be that way.
Physics on the GPU is getting to be fairly mainstream, and here are a couple of games that have taken advantage of it:
While I haven't seen the numbers, I suspect that you probably end up with a far cheaper and more powerful system if you have a more powerful GPU at the expense of the CPU and offload as much processing as possible to the GPU.
