HappySqurriel on 13 July 2008
| Roma said: I think Nintendo said that it was a GC times 2 … |
Well, the important question to ask is what are people measuring when they say the Wii is 2/3/4 times as powerful as the Gamecube?
What we know is the Wii has:
- A faster optical drive that has a higher disc capacity than the Gamecube
- Over double the memory that has lower latency and a higher data trasfer rate than the Gamecube's memory
- A CPU that has (roughly) double the transistors (potentially additional CISC instructions or additional cache) that runs at 1.5 times the clock speed of the Gekko
- A GPU that has (roughly) double the transistors (potentially additional texturing and lighting pipelines) that runs at 1.5 times the clock speed of the Flipper
