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curl-6 on 18 May 2014
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AnthonyW86 said:
curl-6 said:

By being more power efficient, performance would no longer correlate with power draw in the same way as with a standard part.

I don't really get what you're aiming at here. You're saying the Wii-U's design is more efficient than even AMD's newest gpu's? Or that from any major chip company for that matter?

The chip is based on (older)AMD technology and considering the power draw the numbers given are the maximum possible. Sure they are calculated and not reported number by Nintendo, but If they deviate in any way from the actual numbers the real numbers could only end up lower. Nintendo can't defy the laws of physics. Based on the die photo's the core has an configuration of 320:16:8. Again if the numbers actually different they could only be lower, higher doesn't fit on the chip and would consume more power.

Even the techheads can't agree on something so simple as the number of shader parts or which part of the GPU does what, not to mention what customizations may have been made.

You're posting guesswork as if it's fact.