How powerfull is the Wii U? Not that it matters.

[Mr Khan]

fillet said:

dahuman said:

fillet said:

dahuman said:

fillet said:
I'm more interested in how long it will take for you all to be proven wrong and that it's about as powerful as 3 x Wii taped together (not 2, but there was no choice for 3 in the poll).

Then we'll get on to crow eating and inevitable trapped rabbit arguments of hilarity before final acceptance. Bit gutted because that's going to more than likely take another 12 months to happen.

Because we already know it's at the very least 5 Wii's taped together based on rumored CPU specs alone? And if you count just the system RAM then it's 32X more and at least 64x more efficient? XD and the GPU is not even comparable not only in power but also huge generational gaps? You are one crazy man.

Theoretical and practical are different things.

We are currently in the theoretical wait and see stage of hope, soon to be mass denial followed by acceptance. There's a way to go yet.

...I read a poster when the Sega Saturn was released, it said it was 800 x more powerful than a Sega Megadrive/Genesis.

yes, you are absolutely right, but it's not 3 Wiis taped together, even if you clock the CPU down to 729MHz running single core, in it's state with more cache, it'd still be faster than a Wii ^^;;;;; nobody is saying it will be as powerful or more powerful than what Sony or MS is going to offer or saying that the Wii U is leaps and bounds above the PS360, but it's definitely more powerful than the PS360 just based on graphical tech improvements alone. Hopefully your denial will be followed by acceptance soon.

I like your post :)

I'm not trolling here, I genuinely believe the 1.25Ghz 3 core CPU is going to bottleneck beyond belief and yes I realize it does more clock for clock than the CPU in the 360 and PS3. But I know it doesn't do more than 50% more being realistic. This alone will bottleneck it and cause some serious frame rate problems in complex scenes.

I disagree that GPGPU will be used for anything except physics, if at all since nvidia owns the only decent API.

I disagree that there being a separate DSP for the sound will make any difference to performance, sound processing doesn't take much CPU resources.

I do agree the graphics chip present is superior but not by much, the GPUs in the Xbox 360 and PS3 were basically varients of the very top end available that were being released either at the time in the case of the PS3 or the following January if memory serves me correctly for the Xbox 360. The GPU in the Wii-U is a 2 generations old GPU that was mainstream 2 generations ago. Approximately 2 years ago. It will have some more advanced features than the GPU in the Xbox 360 and PS3 but in terms of actual grunt, I'm not sure that's the case. Hard to call.

There is 1GB available RAM in the Wii-U vs 512MB shared on Xbox 360 or 256MB on PS3. How this will translate into visual improvements is yet to be seen because RAM doesn't improve performance, it just helps keeping bigger areas in memory and reducing the need to load all the time between areas. So it could make games feasible that weren't before, but it won't make them run any better.

The EDRAM is another positive on the Wii-U.

Mixing it all together and what I'm interpreting is highly unbalanced system, with bottlenecks that will make some games just not very good, it will make ports from next gen Xbox/PS4 awful in the way that a port to the Wii is awful from Xbox 360/PS3. It will feel like the Wii-U is the new Wii.

I do not think that the Wii-U can keep up with current consoles either due to the bottlenecks and that ports will always be weaker on the Wii-U to a noticeable degree.

3 Wiis tapped together, OK that was a bit silly. But It's not far off the situation, it's closer to 3 Wiis taped together than it is an Xbox 360 or a PS3.

You need to be very careful about hyperbole like this last.