[richisawesome]

CREDIT TO BGASSASSIN

I THINK

Was posted in the conference thread.

Looks legit, but time will tell:

http://www.vgleaks.com/world-premiere-wii-u-specs/

Main Application Processor PowerPC architecture. Three cores (fully coherent). 3MB aggregate L2 Cache size. core 0: 512 KB core 1: 2048 KB core 2: 512 KB Write gatherer per core. Locked (L1d) cache DMA per core. Main Memory Up to 3GB of main memory (CAT-DEVs only). Note: retail machine will have half devkit memory Please note that the quantity of memory available from the Cafe SDK and Operating System may vary. Graphics and Video Modern unified shader architecture. 32MB high-bandwidth eDRAM, supports 720p 4x MSAA or 1080p rendering in a single pass. HDMI and component video outputs. Features Unified shader architecture executes vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4, or 8 samples per pixel) Read from multi-sample surfaces in the shader 128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192) Indexed cube map arrays 8 render targets Independent blend modes per render target Pixel coverage sample masking Hierarchical Z/stencil buffer Early Z test and Fast Z Clear Lossless Z & stencil compression 2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma) Tessellation unit Stream out support Compute shader support GX2 is a 3D graphics API for the Nintendo Wii U system (also known as Cafe). The API is designed to be as efficient as GX(1) from the Nintendo GameCube and Wii systems. Current features are modeled after OpenGL and the AMD r7xx series of graphics processors. Wii U’s graphics processor is referred to as GPU7. Sound and Audio Dedicated 120MHz audio DSP. Support for 6 channel discrete uncompressed audio (via HDMI). 2 channel audio for the Cafe DRC controller. Monaural audio for the Cafe Remote controller. Networking 802.11 b/g/n Wifi. Peripherals 2 x USB 2.0 host controllers x 2 ports each. SDCard Slot. Built-in Storage 512MB SLC NAND for System. 8GB MLC NAND for Applications. Host PC Bridge Dedicated Cafe-to-host PC bridge hardware. Allows File System emulation by host PC. Provides interface for debugger and logging to host PC.

[EatChildren]

Accurate to devkit info I had awhile ago.

[twinturbo2]

As long as it's at least on par with the PS3/X360, it'll be fine. I just need more games to justify the purchase, though.

[Log4Girlz]

I'm glad the Wii U has a tessellation unit. It will get a lot of mileage from Retro.

[MRORANGE]

no cd-rom drive so it can't be real.

[shinobi602]

Seems plausible.

[richisawesome]

As long as it's at least on par with the PS3/X360, it'll be fine. I just need more games to justify the purchase, though.

It's far better.

[Nirolak]

My brief takeaway would be that this seems similar to rumors we had from quite a while back with a fairly improved GPU.

-3 core CPU
-1.5 GB of RAM in the retail version
-A DX10 compliant GPU, since the shaders are unified (model 4.0), but not compute shaders (model 5.0)
-Compute shaders are encouraging

I'm glad the Wii U has a tessellation unit. It will get a lot of mileage from Retro.

I think this is the one AMD had in the 360 as opposed to their new DX11 one. I could definitely be wrong.

-Given the compute shaders, perhaps it is the actual tessellator, which would be a good win for them.

[Horse Armour]

Sounds fake, they know all that but can't even say what the clock speeds of the CPU or GPU are or how many SP the GPU has.

[elektrixx]

USB2? Ugh.

[Ithil]

One year later, I am still seeing rumoured specs

[-Pyromaniac-]

Apparently it's old devkit information that looks accurate enough?

[Sgt.Pepper]

We can just wait like 26 minutes.

[Salvadora]

Can someone tell me if these are good?

[Ein Bear]

I'm not much of a tech-person, how does this compare to the PS3/360? Is it similar/slightly better/full generational leap?

How many Gamecube's taped together?

[mugurumakensei]

My brief takeaway would be that this seems similar to rumors we had from quite a while back: -3 core CPU -1.5 GB of RAM in the retail version -A DX10 compliant GPU, since the shaders are unified (model 4.0), but not compute shaders (model 5.0) I think this is the one AMD had in the 360 as opposed to their new DX11 one. I could definitely be wrong.

Um...

Stream out support Compute shader support

[richisawesome]

USB2? Ugh.

Why?

I haven't got a single device that's USB3, and I'm a fucking technology headcase. I guarantee the PS4/720 won't have USB3 either.

USB2 is perfectly fine, considering BD read speed is so much slower.

[Gamer @ Heart]

This info would have been super interesting to see if only we werent so close the actual games!

But cool nonetheless

[Instro]

Apparently it's old devkit information that looks accurate enough?

Yeah BG said that this was basically accurate albeit rather old.

[Rygar 8 Bit]

not to shabby thats a ton of ram

[Culex]

USB2? Ugh.

For comparison:

Wii HDD Loader uses USB2 and runs games FASTER than from a Wii disc.

[Plinko]

2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes

:D :D :D

[plainr_]

USB2? Ugh.

USB3 is probably useless for a game console.

[Nirolak]

Um...

Hmm, my reading seems poor today.

I'll go back an edit.

[MYE]

Moon language to me. What is all that supposed to mean?

[elektrixx]

We can just wait like 26 minutes.

I'm sure someone said that before the Wii launch as well.

[Orayn]

Sounds very promising. Not "a notch over 360" at all!

not to shabby thats a ton of ram

And if this is old, the current devkits may have even more.

[Duxxy3]

The extra ram will be the big part.

Unless the PS4/Nextbox have 4 gigs...

[StevieP]

These are correct - pretty much copied+pasted from the original SDK PDF

[Tagg9]

We can just wait like 26 minutes.

Ninty won't be announcing specs.

[Plinko]

To be honest, that's much better than I was expecting.

[Instro]

Hmm, my reading seems poor today.

Sure it is. Clearly you were orchestrating an evil conspiracy against... :P

[Horse Armour]

These are correct

How do you know?

[Nibel]

I waited a long time for specs, but the press conference begins in a few minutes and they'll show actually first party HD titles - I don't need those raw numbers now. :)

[_Alkaline_]

Dat ram. Crazy to think at one stage the 360 has going to have 256mb.

[richisawesome]

How do you know?

Dev. Time to take out the 'RUMOUR' in the title?

[farnham]

looks like ps3/360 plus alpha rather than next gen

just like wii was ps2/gc/xbox plus alpha

[Gamer @ Heart]

I noticed this leak doesnt mention the rumored ARM that handles the OS or the separate memory pool or it.

[Pazuzu9]

Good, I had a hard time with incoherent cores in Portal.

[canvee]

My brief takeaway would be that this seems similar to rumors we had from quite a while back: -3 core CPU -1.5 GB of RAM in the retail version -A DX10 compliant GPU, since the shaders are unified (model 4.0), but not compute shaders (model 5.0) -Compute shaders are encouraging I think this is the one AMD had in the 360 as opposed to their new DX11 one. I could definitely be wrong.

What are the main differences between shaders model 4.0 and 5.0?

[ElTopo]

Sounds very promising. Not "a notch over 360" at all! And if this is old, the current devkits may have even more.

I think the talk was of 2GB RAM (which is what bgassassin suspects), though there was talk that the OS was taking up 512MB.

[Majukun]

so ,it's pretty much gibberish for me..are these good?bad?so-so?

[LiK]

Accurate to devkit info I had awhile ago.

whoa nelly

[Horse Armour]

Dev. Time to take out the 'RUMOUR' in the title?

Errm, I'm pretty sure StevieP isn't a dev, that's how he got his tag.

[Salvadora]

I think the talk was of 2GB RAM (which is what bgassassin suspects), though there was talk that the OS was taking up 512MB.

That would be a huge OS footprint.

[richisawesome]

so ,it's pretty much gibberish for me..are these good?bad?so-so?

Far better than current gen. No idea how it'll compare to 720/PS4 though.

[Killer]

Wait like 20 min to put all these rumors to rest.

[alr1ght]

We can just wait like 26 minutes.

you really think they'll release actual specs?

[Cake Boss]

Moon language to me. What is all that supposed to mean?

Same.

3GB is good rite gaf.

I remember some poster saying that it would be a miracle if the other 2 next gen consoles had 4gb. so 3GB is good right, or is that ram just for devs or something.

[Nirolak]

What are the main differences between shaders model 4.0 and 5.0?

Compute Shaders let you write your own code and run it on the GPU for anything that would benefit from a floating point based processor like physics or animation.

Shader Model 4 can technically be recompiled for from Shader Model 5, but performance is unideal.