8th Generation Console?

**LordVador** · 02-02-2012, 01:17 AM **#11**

So I guess Sony/Microsoft either don't feel threatened by the new Nintendo system either are not able to produce a better system (yet) either estimate actual games are "enough" to satisfy players...

**Runo** · 02-02-2012, 03:44 AM **#12**

(02-02-2012, 12:15 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: No, it is suppose to be 1.5 as powerful.

Actually from what I heard...

WiiU Performance = (PS3 Performance)*1.3
In other words 30% more powerful.

**NaturalViolence** · (This post was last modified: 02-02-2012, 06:05 AM by NaturalViolence.)

1. Must I point out that there is no standard method of measuring "performance" among different platforms? 30% faster in what? Please don't let the "magic numbers" that these companies spit out mean anything to you (may I remind you of the things that sony said about both the ps2 and ps3 that turned out to be way off?).

2. We are getting very mixing rumors. Some say 30% others say 50% others say even higher. Quite frankly neither of those add up. 30% faster makes sense for cpu performance since the wii Us cpu is basically just a xenon with an extra core, but if the wii U is going to be using an R700 GPU it would have to be extremely pathetic to only be 30% faster than the xbox360/ps3 gpu. The HD4870 for example is about 7 times as fast as the xbobx360/ps3 gpus.

**DacoTaco** · (This post was last modified: 02-02-2012, 06:36 AM by DacoTaco.)

(02-02-2012, 03:44 AM)Runo Wrote:
(02-02-2012, 12:15 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: No, it is suppose to be 1.5 as powerful.

Actually from what I heard...

WiiU Performance = (PS3 Performance)*1.3
In other words 30% more powerful.

33.3333333... to be exact XD

02-06-2012, 03:19 AM **#15**

My pc pwns everyone xD i've got an alienware desktop Big Grin

**DacoTaco** · (This post was last modified: 02-06-2012, 05:28 PM by DacoTaco.)

(02-06-2012, 03:19 AM)dante001 Wrote: My pc pwns everyone xD i've got an alienware desktop

that its alienware doesn't mean jack shit.

hell, all that the brand alienware tells me its overpriced shit with cases that look like shit unlike my own case Tongue

silveruniverse · 02-06-2012, 07:29 AM **#17**

(02-06-2012, 03:19 AM)dante001 Wrote: My pc pwns everyone xD i've got an alienware desktop

know your place, alienware user

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Ga5Ybw3QA

**ExtremeDude2** · (This post was last modified: 02-06-2012, 07:32 AM by ExtremeDude2.)

(02-06-2012, 03:19 AM)dante001 Wrote: My pc pwns everyone xD i've got an alienware desktop

I lol'd when I looked at your specs because you don't know what the hell they are Big Grin

**admin89** · 02-06-2012, 11:49 AM **#19**

I heard the Ivy Bridge would come with 10 core - 20 thread or sth

**NaturalViolence** · (This post was last modified: 02-06-2012, 12:45 PM by NaturalViolence.)

Quote:I heard the Ivy Bridge would come with 10 core - 20 thread or sth

Nope. Regular ivy bridge will have the same number of cores as sandy bridge. But will have a lower TDP (and power consumption), slightly higher clock rates and slightly higher IPC (10% average and up to 30% for AVX ops), support for PCI-E 3.0, and a faster IGP with new features and API support (quicksync 2, d3d11.1, openCL 1.1, etc.). It's a "tock" in the tick tock strategy so it's not a major improvement over sandy bridge. The next big architecture overhaul will be haswell in 2013.

Sandy Bridge
LGA1155
1-4 cores

Sandy Bridge-E (just came out a month ago)
LGA2011
4-6 cores

Ivy Bridge (replaces sandy bridge in april)
LGA1155
1-4 cores

Ivy Bridge-E (replaces sandy bridge-E sometime in late 2012)
LGA2011
4-8 cores

And of course HT models support two hardware threads per core so Ivy Bridge-E can have up to 16 hardware threads running at once. They will likely come out with xeon models that have two dies and even higher core counts (nehalem-EX xeon already supports 10 cores and 20 threads per socket with up to 4 sockets per motherboard).