Wii U CPU + GPU clock speeds increased? Is it even possible?

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ethomaz said:

fillet said:

It's almost definitely not true, but not for the reasons you have given.

It's entirely possible for a CPU to run at speeds 3x less than it's supposed to run at (My desktop i7 is currently running at about 800Mhz and can run at any speed within a multiplier times the FSB...

Same for GPU, you can clock a desktop GPU at any frequency you like in software. So it's entirely possible theoretically...which doesn't make this actually true at all but your comment is incorrect.

No. It is impossible.

Nintendo will need to make a new thermal system to make these big increase... the actual thermal system in Wii U can't hold cool the CPU/GPU with these clock.

And I'm not going into the FACT the IBM PowerPC 750 architecture can't go over 2Ghz of clock speed.

 

What if the thermal system was always intended to run at this high clock-speeds and just runs underpowered currently? :)

And Espresso is only based on ppc750 with many architectural changes. Xenon and the PPU were also clocked above 3 GHz - hell, IBM builds processors with 5 GHz! So this is not completely impossible.

But the bump itself is highly doubtable, yes.