| drkohler said: And we aleady have a die shot of the apu.. After looking at the WiiU die, this is a surprisingly "simple" to understand apu. Roughly 320mm^2 I'd say. |
On Beyond3d current estimates are around 344mm^2 which is similar to X1's APU (363mm^2). But compard to WiiU, most of the size is reserved to raw GPU and CPU game power (though the 8 cores jaguar CPU is a lot bigger than I thought).
On WiiU, the GPU graphic raw part is really small compared to Wii backward hardware. I mean half of the GPU on WiiU is for the Wii BC because 32MB EDram + 3MB cache + rumored Wii GPU that don't really add flops but is used to emulate 24MB main 1tsram and vram/gpu of Wii. A pity, really, because everyone already has a Wii. The gpu die size is around 145mm^2, CPU around 32mm^2 both at 40nm. It won't prevent me to buy the console when it's cheaper with great Ninty exclusives though. But what a missed opportunity. I really think next Nintendo console won't have BC beause it really hampered Wii-U specs down and it's useless.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WBOifn4F0P0/URM8bz-1WkI/AAAAAAAAFPA/q8aNyhuh7GQ/s1600/wiiudie_blocks.jpg
