Clearing up a major misconception about PowerPC

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SJReiter said:

fleischr said:
Good post.

Every time this topic comes around, there's always some moron who spouts a bunch of nonsense and puts out the myth that the WiiU's internals are exactly the same as the GameCube's.

The way I've always heard it described is:

Wii processor is an overclocked GameCube processor, Wii U processor is a reconfigured Wii processor, therefore the Wii U processor is an overclocked, reconfigured GameCube.

Gamecube, Wii, and Wii U all use PowerPC 750 based CPUs. The difference is:

Gekko: 485 MHz, 256kb of L2 cache, 1 core

Broadway: 729 MHz, 256kb of  L2 cache, 1 core

Espresso: 1.24 GHz, 3MB of L2 cache, 3 cores.