There seems to be a fifth memory chip on the backside of the board. No idea what that's for. Maybe ARAM or something?Hmmm. I wonder if there are other pools?
There seems to be a fifth memory chip on the backside of the board. No idea what that's for. Maybe ARAM or something?Hmmm. I wonder if there are other pools?
Could it be flash storage?There seems to be a fifth memory chip on the backside of the board. No idea what that's for. Maybe ARAM or something?
It does. gDDR3 is DDR3, GDDR3 however isn't.
Correct.So wii u has more modern memory but lower bandwidth? I'm confused
So wii u has more modern memory but lower bandwidth? I'm confused
Maybe. Hynix manufactures both RAM and flash. But why would there be two different flash chips, and why would one of them be so close to the MCM? The guys doing the teardown promised high res photos of all the chips, but I don't think they're available yet.Could it be flash storage?
Pretty sure faster RAM and no eDRAM would have been quite a bit cheaper, actually. There's more to this decision.They went the cheaper route pretty much
To be honest, I didn't think any of the console manufacturers were stupid enough a year and a half ago to use strictly DDRx ram. I was wrong. I'll be glad to admit I was wrong. For the worse. I guess people like hearing big numbers, even if it's slow (hence MS putting 8gb of DDRx into the next Xbox, for example). 2GB of GDDR5 was on the PS4's spec sheet, but that's likely out the window now thanks to Sony probably wanting approximate parity with MS' box.
They should have gone with this mid century modern ram.
There's still hope though, maybe this is what the eRam looks like
IdeaMan's level of bad pun
thats sad.
Not really. There are some advantages to having *more* memory rather than some exotic type or faster (your xdrs, gddrs, etc). However, graphics chips always like the faster kind.
Nothing on GPU yet?
advantages: videoochating while playing games?
Bookmark your own post. It's not going to be standard.
1080p was already a PR goal this gen, if you recall. You can't play that card twice.
What are you talking about? Your IQ doesn't change with age. It has nothing to do with knowledge or experience.
It's relevance to an adult is meaningless.
As I have explained...
What Microsoft "presumably" has in store for non-gaming stuff is astounding, actually. Think what the expensive PVRs from your cable/sat co can do, but more. Surface, Kinect, Windows 8 boxes, all of these things will interface simultaneously and the plan is to have a lot of "family"/"wife" draw to the box. At least that's the "theory"... That takes a lot of memory amount-wise and why there are persistant rumours about a large chunk of memory being unavailable to use out of the 8GB of DDRx (currently DDR3).
Stuff like that is why amount is more important than raw speed, in any case. Graphics chips like faster memory. Everything else just wants more.
Huh?It's relevance to an adult is meaningless.
As I have explained...
Isn't the latest rumor just HDMI pass-through? I'll agree it's got a place under the TV (unlike other consoles of the future) if it's got cablecard 2.0 built in. But that's looking like a false rumor it seems.
Based on the rumoured set ups for the nextbox/PS4 (I know nothing is nailed down), are we talking about those consoles outperforming the Wii U by 4, 5, 6 , 7 times the Wii U in this particular aspect?
I'm not knowledgeable in the tech side of things.
Based on the rumoured set ups for the nextbox/PS4 (I know nothing is nailed down), are we talking about those consoles outperforming the Wii U by 4, 5, 6 , 7 times the Wii U in this particular aspect?
I'm not knowledgeable in the tech side of things.
I think it's safe to say they are going to be roughly in similar distance to each other as Wii and 360/PS3 were.
Sure it is. Albert Einstein and the star of "Moonshiners" were both adults. Therefore there's zero difference in their intellect. :lol
Huh?
Maybe. Hynix manufactures both RAM and flash. But why would there be two different flash chips, and why would one of them be so close to the MCM? The guys doing the teardown promised high res photos of all the chips, but I don't think they're available yet.
That is extremely unlikely for a number of reasons so obvious that I won't even bother mentioning them.Forget "times x" comparisons. I think it's safe to say they are going to be roughly in similar distance to each other as Wii and 360/PS4 were.
Forget "times x" comparisons. I think it's safe to say they are going to be roughly in similar distance to each other as Wii and 360/PS4 were.
Forget "times x" comparisons. I think it's safe to say they are going to be roughly in similar distance to each other as Wii and 360/PS4 were.
Maybe. I guess we have to wait for photos.I remember a rumour a long while back saying that the OS had its own 512MB of flash memory, distinct from the 8/32GB of advertised flash. It's possible that that's it, and if it was TOR or PCM it would explain why it's separate. That said, I've no idea why the OS would need something like that when it's got 1GB of RAM to play with.
Fake edit: Was the Wii's flash TOR? Maybe it's necessary for BC.
In usage these days of the term "IQ" people are generally, afaik, referring to performance in tests of "intelligence" benchmarked to a standard curve with mean of 100.It is a measurement of mental age vs chronological age.
Tell me, what is the difference between how a 30 year old and a 40 year old think?
That is why it is irrelevant at a certain age.
It would be interesting to hear the logic on Nintendo's decision on this matter. If the next gen is the last proper generation of home consoles and Sony and Microsoft will try and extend that last generation as long as possible. . .will Nintendo jump ship from the Wii U in 5/6 years and release a console that could compete with the Nextbox/Orbis in terms of performance to get two generations out of Sony/Microsoft's one?
So, what is the current stand on the situation, is it shit or not?
Im not a very technical guy at all, so i dont get why Ps3 got 120Mb of ram reserved to its OS at launch and Wii U is getting 1GB. Isnt that too much of an overkill?
More modern really?how?It just uses slower but more DDR3 than the 360.Correct.
That is extremely unlikely for a number of reasons so obvious that I won't even bother mentioning them.
More modern really?how?It just uses slower but more DDR3 than the 360.
Yeah nvm.360 doesn't use DDR3
Maybe. I guess we have to wait for photos.
Bare in mind, I was only talking about pure tech specs here, I know Wii U is in much better situation that Wii, now that it basically supports all modern engines and standard methods of developing graphics, unlike the Wii did.