We have no idea of any such thing. There's still at least a third of the silicone that's a complete mystery. You're stating that as fact whereas it's actually an opinion.

OK then ignore the die shot analysis from chipworks lol. Oh and uh why don't you take a guess as to what it is and do you think it will top the PS4 and xbone also ?

Square Enix never said anything of the sort.

Mind you PS4 doesnt use Direct X11 either, thats a microsoft API

Ah, guess my memory is a little fuzzy. Somebody said something like that though.

If DX11 is owned by Microsoft and PS4 doesn't even use it, why would anyone expect Wii U to?

I've been following the Gaf thread since it started mate. Could be 8 or could be 16, we don't know anything for certain. The only thing we know for certain is that the GPU is completely custom, it has some similarities to Brazos in places but the general consensus of opinion is that it's loosely based on the R700 and Nintendo and AMD have probably added in different parts from different lines. We also know the clockspeed, 550MHz, but that's all we know for a fact, and that's down to marcan hacking the thing.

Like I've said, we can see how advanced the hardware is in comparison to the PS3 and 360 by looking at the Bayonetta 2 demo.

It's all down to GPU feature sets. Saying that a GPU is a DX11 or DX10.1 just means that the hardware is capable of producing the same effects and equivalent shaders. Technically people should say 'DX11-equivalent feature set' rather than just 'DX11'.

We know from statements by Unity and the Project C.A.R.S. changelogs as well as the fact that Latte has a usable tessellation unit that Latte has a DX11-equivalent feature set. The fact that it also has compute shaders also indicates this.

Then I don't understand Joethebro's comment. "That means they ported a DX 11 game to Wii U, not that the Wii U supports a DX 11 equivalent API." What's the distinction there? How could they port a DX11 game to Wii U if it did NOT support an equivalent API?

Can you link me to those Unity and Project CARS statements? That would be news to me.

It would be news to me if the Wii U supported an equivalent API for DX 11.

I could care less if you followed the whole gaf thread. No need to get defensive there mate I ain't exactly attacking the WII U. It's probably 8 bro otherwise why would AMD think it would be a good idea to do 16 with a tiny ass 150mm^2 die. 

@Bold That's cool bra it's about the games that show the hardware and not vice versa or somewhat vice versa.

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Interview-Why-Unity-Engine-Good-Fit-Wii-U-47173.html

There's an interview with the CEO of Unity where he mentions that DX11 equivalent effects can be made possible.

Can't provide a link to the changelog though because someone on Gaf from Slightly Mad Studios requested people not to do so unfortunately. It basically said that the PS4 and Wii U shared DX11 equivalent shaders if I remember correctly.

Tbh, there isn't a great deal of difference between DX10.1 and DX11 anyway, just compute shaders and updated tesselation I think.

You can see from the Latte die shot that the GPU is a bit of a Frankenstein creation. The general consensus of opinion is that Nintendo and AMD took the best and most useful parts of several series of GPU and squeezed it all into one GPU.

I'm still convinced that they've included an evolution of the TEV Unit from Flipper/Hollywood but made the changes necessary to give the Wii U a standard rendering pipeline. This would explain how they could manage something like Bayonetta 2 (and The Wonderful 101 for that matter) with so few programmable shaders.

That would give developers 'free' use of HDR/depth of field/whatever else they've included but would have the disadvantage of not having a great deal of spare floppage if someone comes up with a new lighting system etc for the PS4 and One. Probably worth doing though, would just mean developers would be 'stuck' using the fixed function version.