Well even though the IPC is going to be much better on the WiiU cpus OoO cores the increase in IPC won't be enough, especially with one core being reserved for the OS. The CPU will still end up being weaker than the Xenon which is a shame (although it's certainly going to be leaps and bound better than the Wiis cpu). Considering at least two major developers have stated that they had trouble with the WiiUs cpu performance and hinted at it being weaker than the Xenon I'm not completely surprised, though I did expect it to be much higher than that.
I could be wrong but it would need nearly triple the IPC of the Xenon core design just to break even and in today's world that's borderline impossible.
They still haven't said jack shit about the GPU architecture and nothing beyond the basics of the CPU architecture so we're still a bit in the dark here. I really wish they would just tell us already. It's not like it's going to dramatically impact their sales, and we'll get it eventually either way once the console is hacked. It's just bad business to keep everything about your hardware a secret in my opinion.
I could be wrong but it would need nearly triple the IPC of the Xenon core design just to break even and in today's world that's borderline impossible.
They still haven't said jack shit about the GPU architecture and nothing beyond the basics of the CPU architecture so we're still a bit in the dark here. I really wish they would just tell us already. It's not like it's going to dramatically impact their sales, and we'll get it eventually either way once the console is hacked. It's just bad business to keep everything about your hardware a secret in my opinion.
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