digitalnasties said: the GCN hardware in Durango and Orbis is in a completely different league. Stop reading after this BS. |
The power consumption of the Wii U in games is roughly 35W. This is for the entire console, not just the GPU.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-wii-u-is-the-green-console
Assuming the specs outlined in the article/found by NeoGaf are in the ballpark, the graphics card is very similar to HD5550 without DX11 support. (320 SPs, 16 TMUs, 8 ROPs, 550mhz GPU clocks). http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=630&card2=
HD5550 has a VP rating of 27 VP and a power consumption of 39W. The GPU in Xbox 360 was claimed to be similar to X1800XT 512MB by ATI themselves, or a VP rating of 16.7. That means a full blown HD5550 GPU is roughly 62% faster than the GPU in the Xbox 360. HD5550 has 28.8 GB/sec memory bandwidth but Wii U's only has 12.8GB/sec. That means the GPU in the Wii U is slower than HD5550.
The rumored specs for Durango includes a GPU about as powerful as an HD7770 (94 VP). For Orbis it's ~HD7850 (141 VP).
http://alienbabeltech.com/abt/viewtopic.php?p=41174
That means PS4 and Xbox 720 could easily end up at least 3.5-5x faster. I would consider that in an entirely different league.