Clearing up a major misconception about PowerPC

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Mnementh said:

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.

But the same is true for every x86 processor, they are in a way all overclocked and reconfigured 8086.

No, not really. Modern x86 is compatible but works completely different (µ-ops, different pipelines, branch-prediction, totally different instructions,...).