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KHlover said:
Expanations for a non-tech guy, good sir?


It's hard to guess exactly what they are saying but my speculation is that they took the FPU portions entirely out from the CPU and is using the GPU to do heavy math, which is usually a bad idea for a platform like a PC due to hardware differences but not a bad idea for a more customized modern hardware since they can write their dev kits around it since the GPU can be insanely fast for it. I also suspect that they have customized memory controllers that not only is making the system running the DDR3s in dual channel but also have insane low lantency. Not to mention that since it's a customized CPU, the SIMD would be vastly different and a lot would not even be needed since a lot of those can be offloaded to the GPU as well. So while people may look at it like a PC, the way it works is not like a PC at all and using PC logic would be difficult to gague the actual performance on it.

Of course, before the haters come in, PS4 and Nextbox will still be faster, so rest assured that Wii U will not be the best console graphics in the 8th gen and pipe the fuck down.