Wii U GPU new info and more speculation

[timmah]

HoloDust said:

timmah said:

EDIT: No way that wold give PS4 an 8x advantage. Last I heard, the rumor was about 1.3TFLOPS GPU (and I'm betting it's going to be downclocked for heat & power reasons), which is about a 3-4x difference based on raw power if you assume the 5550. Wii-PS360 was around a 20x power differential.

PS4 is rumoured at some 1.84TFLOPs (1152shaders x 2ops x 800MHz)

But you can't compare GPUs by flops  alone - suggested PS4 GPU is rated at around 140-145 VP (similar to 7850). Depending on what's inside WiiU, you have as low as 16.8 to max of some 21.8 (for 5550 and DDR3 64&128bit). So that's between 6.5 and 8+ for 5550 level GPU.

The U was rumored at ~800GFLOPS originally, it'll be interesting to see if the PS4 rumor is accurate. I still have a feeling both systems' (PS4/Nextbox) GPUs will be downclocked to some degree vs. their desktop counterparts to reduce heat & power usage.