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RazorDragon on 01 January 2014
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SubiyaCryolite said:
RazorDragon said:
SubiyaCryolite said:

Actually it could genious, but at unplayable framerate. You think textures get stored in MHz? Why do high res texture packs require cards to have 1GB or more RAM? A 512MB 9800GTX cant handle Skyrims HQ textures, but a 1GB 9600GT could.

And you just had to choose a Voodoo 2, as if the the Wii Us GPU is soooo much more powerful than the 360s right?


The unplayable framerate part is exactly the one I'm talking about. Now get a 1GB 9800GTX and 1GB 9600GT and try making texture resolution go up in any game, you'll lose more performance on the 9600GT than you will on the 9800GT, all other settings equal. That's what I'm talking about, textures don't get stored in MHz, but making use of higher resolution textures isn't a free thing just because you have more RAM, you need more compute power to actually aplly those to a gaming environment.


A 512MB 9800GTX cant handle Skyrims HQ textures, but a 1GB 9600GT could.

Is a 1GB 9600 GT more powerful that a 512MB 9600GT? No, its the same card but one can handle higher res textures and the other cant. Do you think theyd perorm the same with skyrims high res textures, honestly? Now why is that so hard to process in regards to WiiU vs XBox 360? What makes you think a 360 with 1GB of RAM cant do what the WiiU is doing now when it barely beats Vanilla 360 as is? When a game like Resident Evil Revelations of all things judders on the system? Do I need to put a link to every damn faceoff involving the Wii U.

No I dont this alone will do 

"we can rule out any next-gen pretensions for Wii U" 

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/df-hardware-wii-u-graphics-power-finally-revealed

At the time (before I got the system) I dismissed them but after a year on the market and owning one for myself its painfully obvious. These guys arent fanboys, arent affeliated to any system and actually know what they are talking about so I'll take their word (and my eyes) over anythying else.


One can handle higher-res textures, sure, but with worse framerate. I actually prefer their faceoff for NFS Most Wanted. You know, the game with better textures than the 360/PS3 version and better/comparable framerate.