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[Mitch]

Um...

That's n64

Are you sure??

Edited by Mitch13pavel, 31 August 2012 - 03:36 PM.

[thehappening]

how can a cpu that does not exist be confirmed there is no power7 in wiiu for wiiu its 3x powerpc cores and 3mb of level 2 catch as already confirmed even a interns c.v on the web for a new job clearly proves this fact

[3Dude]

right read the following THERE IS A ARTICLE ON THIS WEB SITE IN FACT A NUMBER OF ARTICLES ON THIS WEB SITE !!!!!!!!!!!!!! that clearly explain the wiiu cpu to you thanks to the never been wrong since 2003 wiiboy101 a guy who predicted the wiis motion and point and a guy who made a fortune in nintendo stock ,,,

he clearly stated 45nm and powerpc 476fp but not fp a broadway version of the same cpu family as 400 has totally replaced the near identicle powerpc 750 its clear to any sane person the following is the wii u cpu

3x core 3mb custom catch powerpc 32bit each core is like broadway in spec design and include the broadway graphics burst pipes each core is based on powerpc 32bit 400 series the most powerful single thread core cpu on this planet the cpu will support 3 x single tread out of order branch prediction multi tasking per core and the ability to virtual dual thread via a hyperthreading mode each core will operate at 5 instructions per clock

thank u and good morning

There is nothing near identical about the 400 series and the 750 series broadway is derived from.

'3x out of order branch prediction' is not a method of branch prediction, or anything in existance.

the 400 series, including the 476, the only chip in the series made on a 45nm process, can't be clocked high enough to be the wii u cpu.

There is no such thing as a 'catch'

If the wii u cpu was a 476 derivitive, ibm would be saying the wii u contained the same processor technology and chips found in the 476 blue gene, instead of the power 7 watson.

On three seperate occasions ibm's official ibmwatson twitter feed has directly confirmed power 7 chips in direct response to different people asking about it.

Edited by 3Dude, 01 September 2012 - 04:59 AM.

[Socalmuscle]

Are you sure??

Are you sure??

Lol

Of course. Go google the n64 specs.

The first tip off would be 160,000 ploys/sec with all features enabled.

The others keys are MIPS and trilinear mip-mapping.

It's the n64. All the way down do the MHz rating.

Edited by Socalmuscle, 01 September 2012 - 09:50 AM.

[Socalmuscle]

Can someone answer me this...what happened to the CPU being quad core? its seems funny to me that the ps vita has a quad core CPU (yes i know its only clocked a 1ghz). i heard a rumor that Wii U has quad core with 3 dedicated to gaming and one dedicated to the gamepad.... can this be true? IMO there is just no way (i hope) nintendo would bottleneck the console this way. having a very modern GPU but a CPU that would limit what developers could do. i hope its just the fact that they havent had time to understand or grasp the architecture of the CPU and how to apply it to games and run code on it.

There is no evidence that the CPU is not quad core.

The second dev kits had quads.

Nintendo didn't downgrade...

[Socalmuscle]

The tri core rumor started after the ubiquitous "unnamed developer" stated that the wii u CPU is very similar to the Xbox 360 CPU. Next thing, a couple more "anonymous" rumors pop up to go along with that... Misinformation.

The only spec rumor that had a name attached (ubisoft) mentioned quad core.

Gearbox can't say enough about how powerful the CPU is while the tekken guy talks about architectural challenges to porting his 360 code. For a similar idea, remember Starcraft 2 runs better on CPU with more clock speed over more cores and better architecture (barring a rewrite for new multi ore architecture that would outperform the old software significantly). Because that's how it was designed to run. Nothing new here.

Ok well all we have been hearing for the past months are tri core... So waiting game I guess. I just hope nintendo doesn't bottleneck it and give devs an excuse.

That's not their way. The wii was the first system that wasn't "playing with power." while that was a lucrative gamble, they see that market is now saturated - especially with the proliferation of devices such as the iPhone and iPad with their casual games at bargain basement prices.

They have committed themselves to creating a powerful hardware to entice third parties and a new licensing structure to back it up. Beyond that, they are providing libraries and engine support like no other.

They haven't bottlenecks the hardware. They've put in the Godzilla of CPUs and a GPU to match.

Edited by Socalmuscle, 02 September 2012 - 08:14 PM.