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F0X said:
ViktorBKK said:

The Wii U has more ram, thats it. Everywhere else it is lagging. You obviously do not understand the correlation between semiconductor lithography and power consumption.

Wii U : 40/45 nm & 40 Watts

PS360 Slim Versions: 40/45 nm & ~100 watts

Do the math.


Care to elaborate more? I'm led to believe that technology is supposed to become more effiecent over time.

It depends on what you mean by "efficient". They all feature the same process nodes but the difference lies in their architectures are pretty different. Some newer architectures can extract more performance due to their more modernized design. The general concensus that viktor is trying to demonstrate that a processor with a higher power consumption is generally faster than the processor with a lower power consumption. This is assuming that the processors aren't too dissimilar such as a comparison between a cpu and gpu. Technology does become efficient over time but all of these consoles feature similar manufacturing but the wii u is efficient through it's architecture despite the fact that it has a lower theoretical floating point performance. The wii u as you can see doesn't take up alot of power compared to the hd twins this generation but that doesn't automatically mean it's weak that it's like pemalite and nylevia had stated. 

 

Alot of people here are forgetting about the WII Us modernized architecture to obtain a better result. The wii u has better rendering techniques than the ps360 so it can afford to spend less cycles on processing alot of things.

 

It boils down to this, the wii u can achieve more with less.