Cerny: Full hardware capabilities of PS4 may take 'three to four years' to be harnessed

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petalpusher said:

Pemalite said:

Rubbish.
The Wii U's CPU architecture is vastly improved over it's older brothers.
For starters it's not just more caches, cores and frequency, it brings with it an OoO execution engine which vastly improves efficiency, new SIMD instructions, wider and faster caches and interconnects.
The difference however would be like comparing an Intel Atom (In Order CPU) to AMD's Brazos (Out of Order) at the same clock and cores. - Put it this way, Brazos makes Atom look pathetic when software doesn't take advantage of more than 2 threads.

The Wii CPU was OoO already... That's a bad start for you. It's still a Powerpc (750x family) wich no one on earth use anymore, and was basically designed in the previous century (1999). The cell and Xenon however were in order cpu. OoO is better for poorly optimized cpu code in general, but that's not such a big deal.

 

That's a bad start for you: