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| ViktorBKK said: 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. |
A 40 Watt console in its first year keeping up with 100 of consoles with 7-8 years of developer optimization on their side doesn't seem like a minimal gain to me. Even to gain even performance, (which I don't consider it to be, as I see Wii U's GPU as almost certainly being stronger) that's a 150% increase in efficiency for the 40 Watt console.
The newer DX10/11 features and many times larger eDRAM will help it a lot.
