Hyrule Warriors shows the Wii U's CPU isn't THAT weak

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dharh said:

curl-6 said:

What I'm claiming is that the myths about it just being 3 Wii CPUs taped together are just that, myths. 

Of course it is. That's not how CPU's generally work. Especially not from one cycle to the next cycle.

However, neither you nor I know what the true performance is since real bencharks, like the kinds we have on PCs, are ever run on consoles, we can't know necessarily if the Wii U is 3x or more or less than what was on the Wii.

Given that core count alone is three times, before we even take into the higher clock speed and a 12-fold increase in L2 cache, it's almost certain that it's significantly more than just 3 times stronger when all is said and done. You're right, we don't know the exact performance, but we can estimate. 

And some people just find this stuff interesting, I guess.