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Forums - Nintendo - NeoGAF: Wii U GPU 160 ALUs, 8 TMUs and 8 ROPs

fatslob-:O on 07 November 2013
Mr Khan said:
Captain_Tom said:
fatslob-:O said:
Captain_Tom said:
attaboy said:
is that good or bad?


Terrible.  I don't even think that beats an HD 6450, a $40 card on newegg:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102933

 

It is really not any more than 20% stronger than a PS3 + more RAM.

Do you mean the card or the wiiu being 20% stronger with more ram ? 

Well the Wii U of course lol.  Though that $40 card alone does have twice as much ram as the PS3, and as much video ram as the Wii U has total usable RAM for games lol!

PC architecture has always been ineffecient about memory usage. They cannot be compared directly.

The WII U is very similar to a PC that it's not even funny. 



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gentii on 07 November 2013

The GPU of PS3 heave 52 ALU



forethought14 on 07 November 2013

Wait, some people are now claiming the GPU to be less powerful based on these alleged specs (not confirmed, to repeat), despite all of the developer commentaries prior to launch saying specifically that the GPU is more capable? Even at its prior clockspeed before final development kits, at 400mhz the GPU was already more powerful, even if by a little.



fatslob-:O on 07 November 2013
gentii said:
The GPU of PS3 heave 52 ALU

That doesn't tell us a whole lot when we don't know the clocks or how many FP MADD operations an ALU can execute.



orniletter on 07 November 2013
fatslob-:O said:
 

The WII U is very similar to a PC that it's not even funny. 


Huh ? Dedicated sound hardware, Power PC CPU, eDRAM and DDR3 memory system and a not off the shelf GPU are close to standard PC hardware ? Nah...

 

...in hindsight, it would have probably been better to go with a standard AMD APU though.



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gentii on 07 November 2013
fatslob-:O said:
gentii said:
The GPU of PS3 heave 52 ALU

That doesn't tell us a whole lot when we don't know the clocks or how many FP MADD operations an ALU can execute.

550 MHz = 52 GPU ALU operations per clock cycle



fatslob-:O on 07 November 2013
forethought14 said:
Wait, some people are now claiming the GPU to be less powerful based on these alleged specs (not confirmed, to repeat), despite all of the developer commentaries prior to launch saying specifically that the GPU is more capable? Even at its prior clockspeed before final development kits, at 400mhz the GPU was already more powerful, even if by a little.

It depends on what they mean by "more capabilities" it could be that their referring to modern features rather than power. Btw it's the developers that are telling us that the GPU is indeed weak.



Saviour on 07 November 2013

power means nothing when u can play and enjoy zelda, metroid, mario and other nitendo amazing games!, Gameplay>>>Graphics. Just enjoy ur games these specs debates are pointless.



Dr.EisDrachenJaeger on 07 November 2013

No developers are telling us the GPU is weak, this is some high tier level fud lmao



gentii on 07 November 2013

 

 

 

Xbox 360 is probably more powerful than PS3