NeoGAF: Wii U GPU 160 ALUs, 8 TMUs and 8 ROPs

[ViktorBKK]

curl-6 said:

ViktorBKK said:

orniletter said:

ViktorBKK said:
GPUs of current/last gen systems:

Xbox 360 > PS3 > Wii U

thats just horse shit !

The CPU is arguably weaker/ inferior to the PS360´s (though you can´t compare them 1:1 to each other because their strenght´s and weaknesses are very different). The GPU is unargably more powerful.

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.

LOL, if it the power balance was 40:100 as you're suggesting, Wii U wouldn't have been able to pull off 6th/7th year PS360 games at launch.

And it is simply untrue that Wii U's only technical advantage is RAM.

Wii U has more than three times as much eDRAM as 360, that's a massive boon to rendering.

Wii U has DX10/11 features compared to the DX9 level stuff on PS3/360.

It is not 40:100, because the Wii U is a newer and probably more efficient design, but its not 1:1 either. Efficiency in chip design has its limits. AMD, which happens to be the GPU supplier of all these systems -current and next gen- except the PS3, has been releasing revisions of their APU(Llano, Trinity, Richland) on the same 32nm process node from Global Foundries. They have beein doing so for the past 3 years and guess what, performance gains every year are minimal at best.