Wii U Hardware Specifications Leaked?
December 6th, 2011
We still have quite a wait for Nintendo’s next-gen Wii U console, which isn’t expected to be officially launched until near the end of 2012. To help get us through and ease our wait, some possible specs for the new Wii U have surfaced.
Take this with a grain of salt, but according to a developer “in the know,” the Wii U is equipped with a 45nm, PowerPC-based 3 GHz processor with four cores, similar to the one found in the Xbox 360. There is rumored to be a 40nm AMD GPU that will share the onboard memory with the CPU. It looks like it may even have 768MB of DRAM to support that processor.
We still have no info on pricing, but if these spec rumors are on target, the Wii U may be expensive compared to the Wii’s current pricing – especially if you work in the cost of its fancy controller. Of course it will be much more powerful, but what really matters are the games anyhow.
[via Tomsguide]
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Wow, another “journalist” getting all the “facts” and making stuff up, wonderful. First, if you did any research then you would know that the CPU may be 3GHz, but it is POWER7 which makes any comparison to the CPU in the 360 laughable considering it is loosely based on the POWER4/the research conducted by IBM to develop the Cell.
Also, it has recently come to light that the translation is likely wrong on the MB portion when it might actually be Mb which means bits instead of bytes. A system with 768 MBs of DRAM would be unaffordable and would be a monster, and the actual use of embedded DRAM should have let “journalists” know that this was not RAM and research should be done if you dont know what DRAM is. Translating those numbers for you from bits to bytes, you get 768 become 96MBs of DRAM which is supposed to be embedded in the CPU with no hinting at what the GPU is bringing to the equation other than chip size.
On a side note, the 360 just had 10MBs of eDRAM making it almost a tenth the size of what the Wii U may have, and the 3GHz quad core is capable of 4 threads which in one article stemming from an interview with IBM, one guy mentioned that the slowest POWER7 CPU could out do a 5GHz POWER6 which he did not clarify if overclocking would be needed for this which their POWER7 is rated for a higher GHz value allowing for overclocking assuming the design takes the heat issue into account.
So yeah, it would be nice to see at least one article on the net where someone just doesn’t spew out the same recycled material and instead applied themselves and looked into the matter first.
@teufel, Great comment.