| snowdog said: It isn't fanboy bullshit. We know next to nothing about the GPU. Gaf hasn't confirmed anything, we were quite divided whilst the thread was still open. A lot of it was complete guesswork, what everyone agreed on was that the ALUs were twice the size they should be and the amount of memory cache. That's it lol. And the likes of Super Mario 3D World, Mario Kart 8, Bayonetta 2, X and SSBU wouldn't be possible on a bog standard 176GFlop GPU (and we were divided on that too some thought it was that others (including my good self) thought it was twice that). Like I said we'll have to wait and see how Project CARS compares to judge fairly. And I've already pointed out several times that the Wii U would have to have down-ports from the PS4 and One with concessions such as the ones you've listed. |
The most popular hypothesis that Latte was a 16:320:8 part @ 550 mHz. Fortunately, we can see how such a part runs games on the PC. You know, the PC, that inefficient beast that's held back by Windows, thick APIs, Direct X draw-call bottlencks that break the back of even fast CPUs, and all that stuff. Here is a HD 5550, a VLIW5 GPU with a 16:320:8 configuration running at @550 mhz:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/Radeon_HD_5550/7.html
And it blows past the 360 without any problems. It's not even close. And that's despite being on the PC!
Now lets scale things back a bit. This is the Llano A3500M w/ Radeon 6620G - a 20:400:8 configuration GPU, but it runs @ 444 MHz meaning it has exactly the same number of gflops and TMU ops as the HD 5550, only it's got about 20% lower triangle setup and fillrate *and* it's crippled by a 128 bit DDR 1333 memory pool *and* it's linked to a slower CPU than the above benchmark (so more likely to suffer from Windows/DX bottlenecks). No super fast pool of edram for this poor boy!
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4444/amd-llano-notebook-review-a-series-fusion-apu-a8-3500m/11
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4444/amd-llano-notebook-review-a-series-fusion-apu-a8-3500m/12
And it *still* comfortably exceeds the 360 in terms of the performance that it delivers. Now lets look again at the Wii U. Does it blow past the 360? Does it even comfortably exceed the 360? No, infact most ports are worse. infact a developer has confirmed the the wiiu to be 176gflops gpuVLIW5 which makes it slighty better then the the 360 240 glops VLIW4 but of couse nintedo fanboys will ignore the facts and make specs that from there ass
