Wii U vs PS4 vs Xbox One FULL SPECS (January 24, 2014)

[zarx]

BlueFalcon said:

zarx said:

Sea Islands it's self is a slightly modified version of Southern Islands. Whatever custom chip that AMD have cooked up for Sony bassed on VLIW5 will likely incorperate some of the same improvements they were working on for Sea Islands. 

Southern Islands and Sea Islands are SIMD design, Graphics Core Next, not VLIW5. 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4455/amds-graphics-core-next-preview-amd-architects-for-compute/4 

GCN (aka HD7000-8000 series) is the biggest architectural change for AMD graphics cards since 2007's HD2000 series.

Also, people these rumors calling it "12 Shader Cores" or "18 Shader Cores" is flat out incorrect. It's 12 or 18 Compute Units. Each Compute Unit houses 64 Stream/Shader processors. So if you are talking about Shaders, it would be 768 or 1152. A Compute Unit is not a "Shader Core" as it houses 64 Shader cores inside of it.

1 Compute Unit has 64 ALUs (shader cores). To say a GPU has "12 Shader Cores" is like saying a car's horsepower is 8 cylinders....Interchanging Compute Units with Shader Cores is flat out incorrect. 

Ah right that's what i get for reading Wikipedia pages lol. I even remember reading that article now....