bunchanumbers said:
There was already this big argument about it, but Neogaf verified it at 175 or so. Who knows if its true though. |
One of the huge issues that made it a certainty that it was 176 gflops is the wii u uses a older cheaper 40nm fabrication process which is more power hungry and yet its power consumption was far too low to be 352 gflops. It simply didn't consume enough power. The main reason people were believing it was 352 gflops was if anything a simple belief that Nintendo wouldn't release a console in 2012 that was of such low performance as 176 gflops but then the cpu performance was evidently much weaker from day one.
Still even at 176 gflops still more powerful than 360 and PS3 gpu's. It has later much more efficient architecture. In one generation Radeon gpu's become 30% more efficient and the wii u has 32MB of ultra fast memory for the gpu. It's probably still overall more powerful unlike the cpu performance which is much weaker than both 360 and PS3.
That's what worries me about the NX its hard to predict how low Nintendo will go in performance terms. Even if they go for a decent chipset in theory how much performance will they strip off it by lowering speeds, reducing features or using cheap slow memory chips?
I'm going to assume very low performance unless there is evidence to the contrary and I would suggest other's do the same rather than give Nintendo the benefit of the doubt when the first NX games show weak performance, missing graphic features etc.
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