While Nintendo has kept certain aspects of the Wii U hardware secret, developer "Marcan" has released them for the masses. Marcan has revealed the CPU and GPU clock speeds for the new console, which on the surface do not appear to be too spectacular but very efficient According to the dev, the Wii U's CPU speeds run at 1.24 GHz per core with 3x PowerPC type cores. Additionally, the ...
Read full articleOriginally posted by hearme0:Less lower than what? Did you not read the article?
Eh......still sucks that it's much much less lower than the big boy consoles and sucks even more that Nintendo games are intense enough to merit higher clock speeds.
Time for Nintendo to revamp their games into something a little more ..........how should I say............2013(ish)????
Originally posted by hearme0:Did you read the part that said this? "So yes, the Wii U CPU is nothing to write home about, but don't compare it clock per clock with a 360 and claim it's much worse. It isn't."
Eh......still sucks that it's much much less lower than the big boy consoles and sucks even more that Nintendo games are intense enough to merit higher clock speeds.
Time for Nintendo to revamp their games into something a little more ..........how should I say............2013(ish)????
Originally posted by wheelstb:Yeah Intel tried to play that game with the Pentium 4 until people wised up when AMD was kicking their but with processors a 1000+ Mhz slower.
IF it simply came down to clock speed a machine with an Intel Pentium 4 clocked at 2 GHz and a machine with the latest generation Intel processor clocked at 2 GHz would perform identically.
That just wouldn't be the case. There is a lot more that goes into performance than simply clock speed.
Quote:and that is exactly the right viewpoint to have. Besides, a lot of it probably comes down to how well the programmers are able to create code that works with what the system has to offer.
Can i honestly say something i dont care about processor speed as long as it works and plays the games i want to play i dont give a fart
Originally posted by wheelstb:as far as i know the ps2 was the least advanced of that generation...and it won that one due to its games
Quote:and that is exactly the right viewpoint to have. Besides, a lot of it probably comes down to how well the programmers are able to create code that works with what the system has to offer.
Can i honestly say something i dont care about processor speed as long as it works and plays the games i want to play i dont give a fart
I remember back in the days of the GameCube, one of the Metroid games had some of the best graphics on any game system at the time. From a purely technical standpoint the GameCube wasn't on par with the other systems. I don't know a whole lot about programming but I'm sure having more power to work with makes it easier to create better graphics but, it is still possible it might just take more effort.
Quote:you know what, I think you are correct. I don't know if it takes away from my overall point or not but, it still comes down to how well developers are able to negotiate different hardware configurations to get the best performance.
as far as i know the ps2 was the least advanced of that generation...and it won that one due to its games
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