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Kami said:
sc94597 said:

Their opinion is the popular one you keep citing. The 170 - 350 gflop estimate comes from the collection of articles found in that post. 

And even they say;

It it worth noting at this stage that a large portion of the GPU logic is still unexplained.


What I meant is what is making their opinion the popular one? Ever wonder why it's percieved that way? That being said there is almost no evidence that supports you're theory of the Wii U GPU being 550 gigaflops. 

What makes their opinion the popular one? People look for specs and don't care about the context in their comparisons. The people who made this estimate obviously made conditional statements like, if we assume, and there is still we don't know. Then somebody who just wanted to make lists compared what they could find without understanding these conditions.  I never said the Wii U GPU is 550 gigaflops. I said that the Wii U's GPU is based on a card that outputs around 480 gigaflops, and there are just as many estimates with the Wii U's low end being 350 gigaflops and upper end being 550 gigaflops. Somebody scouring the internet will probably average both these views and choose 350 gigaflops. The truth is though, nobody knows what the upper and lower limits of the Wii U's potential is, because the GPU is not that simple. And theoretical performance doesn't always translate to real world performance. This all started because you thought the 350 gigaflop estimate was official, which prove my point. People look for an easy number to quantify things without understanding the context from which that number was found.