| hated_individual said: Processing power/performance of Wii U's GPU is 352 GFLOPS and not 176 GLOPS, since when an intentional misinformation is something factual? 176 GFLOPS theory came from Beyond 3D which foundation/reason of existence of that theory was based on performance of ports rather than exclusives which is laughable to me as PlayStation 3 had nearly all ports considerably inferior to Xbox 360 in first few years of its life and when 3rd party developers started finally utilizing the system the ports were more and more on par to 360 or even better such as Battlefield 3 and GTA IV being better on PlayStation 3 than Xbox 360. |
You cannot compare the capabilities of one processor (WiiU's GPU) to another processor of a completely different architecture (Xbox 360) with only Gigaflops, there is so much more to graphics processing than floating point math.
For instance the WiiU has 3dc+ texture compression, it can compress more texture-types/maps, with a higher compression ratio, which conserves a massive amount of bandwidth and allows for more detailed assets to be used in the same amount of space.
It's pipelines are also probably more efficient than the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3's and probably uses a VLIW5 design.
It's shader pipelines can handle longer and more complex shaders, where-as on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 you might have to use various tricks (Which costs performance) to do the same thing.
And that's just for starters.
Essentially, even if the WiiU had the EXACT same amount of "Gigaflops" as the Xbox 360, it's performance will still be vastly superior, it's a far more efficient and flexible design.
| hated_individual said: Car color/paint in Grand Turismo 5/6 and 3/4 is a single texture that is exactly one pixel so it is not resource intensive at all in terms of memory and need of processing power since the texture is like less than 1KB for sure which is 1/1024 of MB. |
I am pretty sure you're talking about a "Texel". - Aka, textured pixel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texel_(graphics)
It's not a rare technique used in 3D graphics.
| hated_individual said: Wii U is 2.3 API generations ahead of PlayStation 3, it does not have severe technical limitations. |
What?
You can run the same "Generational" API on the WiiU as you can on a Nintendo 64.
It's a piece of software, a program or "Application Programmable Interface". - A layer of software that sits between the hardware/drivers/game to abstract features to make them easy to program for.
www.youtube.com/@Pemalite
