Wii-U's gpu is called Mario, and AMD named it that over 4 years ago.

[Soleron]

ethomaz said:

Soleron said:

So you believe that AMD had "mario", "luigi", "koopa", "wario" and "boom" as codenames?

Luigi and Mario are internal codenames for RV710 and RV730... no Wikipedia only.

And I see no issue with that... it is know way before the Wii U launch in the tech forums.

And not... these codenames have nothing to do with Wii U's GPU.

 

Source? I can't find any mentions on the internet before late 2012. The 4xxx series was released in 2008.