Wii U GPU Die Image! Chipworks is AWESOME!

[JEMC]

Aielyn said:

JEMC said:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6465/nintendo-wii-u-teardown

Wii U Menu (No Disc in Drive) : 31.2W
Wii U Menu (Disc in Drive) : 32.8W
Super Mario U : 33.0W
Netflix Playback : 28.5W

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-wii-u-is-the-green-console

Front-End : 32w
FIFA 13 Demo : 32w
Netflix HD : 29w

It seems like the WiiU is always at 100% load, which is a bit odd :-/

I actually wonder if Nintendo hasn't done something to hold the power usage down at this point in time. As I understand it, Nintendo themselves said the system would use 45 W at peak.

http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/41850/wii-u-specs-update-memory-and-storage-space-revealed/

So why are they all using about 33 W? Did Nintendo just do extra efficiency modifications in the last few months? Or are the launch titles specifically not using all of the available power? Or is it just that they haven't tested the appropriate games?

I don't know.

Let's assume a case where the game/console runs at 35W. With a power brick with an efficiency of 70% that means that it draws 50W from the wall, add another 20% left for safety (because efficiency goes down with time, etc.) and you end with 60W. With the power brick being 70W, where are the other 10W?

Who knows, maybe they'll do what happened with the PSP or the 3DS and launch a firmware that increases the speeds of the CPU or the GPU (or maybe both).