curl-6 said:
Cos the PS3 totally has 1GB of RAM to handle the more memory-demanding scenes. Oh wait, no it doesn't. |
lol. the gpgpu plays a more important role in that area than the (slow wii u) ram. and like I said "Negligibly better"
curl-6 said:
Cos the PS3 totally has 1GB of RAM to handle the more memory-demanding scenes. Oh wait, no it doesn't. |
lol. the gpgpu plays a more important role in that area than the (slow wii u) ram. and like I said "Negligibly better"
trixiemafia86 said:
lol. the gpgpu plays a more important role in that area than the (slow wii u) ram. and like I said "Negligibly better" |
Actually it's probably the ram that plays the more important role due to the fact that the WII U handles compute shaders poorly.
fatslob-:O said:
Actually it's probably the ram that plays the more important role due to the fact that the WII U handles compute shaders poorly. |
Really. Then this supports my point even more. it's "Negligibly better" than the ps3.
Bear in mind that curl-6, thinks the difference between ps4 and wii u isn't huge. lol
trixiemafia86 said:
Really. Then this supports my point even more. it's "Negligibly better" than the ps3. Bear in mind that curl-6, thinks the difference between ps4 and wii u isn't huge. lol |
Like I said before, "it's all relative."
I think the difference is big but curl may not think the same.


trixiemafia86 said:
lol. the gpgpu plays a more important role in that area than the (slow wii u) ram. and like I said "Negligibly better" |
Wii U's lower RAM bandwidth is a non-issue if you use its much faster eDRAM for operations requiring rapid memory. And 1GB is considerably better than <500MB. Any scene requiring 600, 700, or 900MB of assets at once would be undoable on PS3/360. Wii U's GPU is better as well.
curl-6 said:
Wii U's lower RAM bandwidth is a non-issue if you use its much faster eDRAM for operations requiring rapid memory. And 1GB is considerably better than <500MB. Any scene requiring 600, 700, or 900MB of assets at once would be undoable on PS3/360. Wii U's GPU is better as well. |
The eDRAM is only useful in a few situations such as storing render targets and depth buffers but other than that it really ain't supposed to be used for texturing operation. In fact I'd argue that the xbox 360's implimentation of eDRAM is better than the WII Us.


fatslob-:O said:
The eDRAM is only useful in a few situations such as storing render targets and depth buffers but other than that it really ain't supposed to be used for texturing operation. In fact I'd argue that the xbox 360's implimentation of eDRAM is better than the WII Us. |
360's use of eDRAM is terrible, 10MB is just too small for a HD system; in fact, it forced sub-HD resolutions in many games.
Both Shin'en and the dev from that Eurogamer article on early Wii U development have stated that thanks to the eDRAM, memory bandwidth is not a problem for Wii U.
| curl-6 said: 360's use of eDRAM is terrible, 10MB is just too small for a HD system; in fact, it forced sub-HD resolutions in many games. Both Shin'en and the dev from that Eurogamer article on early Wii U development have stated that thanks to the eDRAM, memory bandwidth is not a problem for Wii U. |
It may have being an issue when hitting HD resolutions but developers had a form of solution called "tiling" which allowed it to split up the render targets and depth buffers into "tiles".
Another thing unique thing about the xbox 360's eDRAM was that it had an 8 extra ROPS which essentially allowed it "free anti aliasing". This had meant that blending operations were possible on a separate die such as the eDRAM.
Memory bandwidth is still an issue seeing as how the eDRAM doesn't solve the texturing bandwidth of the WII U. It essentially limits the amount of high resolution textures the WII U can have.
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