{"id":112180,"date":"2013-02-05T09:50:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T14:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/?p=112180"},"modified":"2013-02-05T09:49:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T14:49:54","slug":"latest-wii-u-tech-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/latest-wii-u-tech-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Wii U tech details"},"content":{"rendered":"<div\n\tclass=\"ngg-galleryoverview ngg-ajax-pagination-none\"\n\tid=\"ngg-gallery-0ca2cce9fcddab80d259b9ddb795fabf-1\">\n\n    \t\t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"\"\n               title=\"\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/wii-u-reverse-engineering-photos\/wii_u_chipworks_photo-1.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/wii-u-reverse-engineering-photos\/thumbs\/thumbs_wii_u_chipworks_photo-1.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"39160\"\n               data-title=\"wii_u_chipworks_photo-1\"\n               data-description=\"\"\n               data-image-slug=\"wii_u_chipworks_photo-1\"\n               class='use_imagebrowser_effect' data-imagebrowser-url='https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/latest-wii-u-tech-details\/nggallery\/image\/%STUB%'>\n                <img\n                    title=\"wii_u_chipworks_photo-1\"\n                    alt=\"wii_u_chipworks_photo-1\"\n                    src=\"\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:100%;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n        \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-1\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"\"\n               title=\"\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/wii-u-reverse-engineering-photos\/wii_u_chipworks_photo-2.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/wii-u-reverse-engineering-photos\/thumbs\/thumbs_wii_u_chipworks_photo-2.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"39161\"\n               data-title=\"wii_u_chipworks_photo-2\"\n               data-description=\"\"\n               data-image-slug=\"wii_u_chipworks_photo-2\"\n               class='use_imagebrowser_effect' data-imagebrowser-url='https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/latest-wii-u-tech-details\/nggallery\/image\/%STUB%'>\n                <img\n                    title=\"wii_u_chipworks_photo-2\"\n                    alt=\"wii_u_chipworks_photo-2\"\n                    src=\"\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:100%;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n        \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-2\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"\"\n               title=\"\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/wii-u-reverse-engineering-photos\/wii_u_chipworks_photo-3.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/wii-u-reverse-engineering-photos\/thumbs\/thumbs_wii_u_chipworks_photo-3.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"39162\"\n               data-title=\"wii_u_chipworks_photo-3\"\n               data-description=\"\"\n               data-image-slug=\"wii_u_chipworks_photo-3\"\n               class='use_imagebrowser_effect' data-imagebrowser-url='https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/latest-wii-u-tech-details\/nggallery\/image\/%STUB%'>\n                <img\n                    title=\"wii_u_chipworks_photo-3\"\n                    alt=\"wii_u_chipworks_photo-3\"\n                    src=\"\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:100%;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n        \n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Digital Foundry has put together a comprehensive piece outing new technical details for Wii U. The information was deciphered thanks to reverse-engineering photos provided by Chipworks. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve posted a few Wii U spec bits below. You can find Digital Foundry&#8217;s full report <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/df-hardware-wii-u-graphics-power-finally-revealed\">here<\/a><\/b>, but if lack knowledge of hardware like us, you won&#8217;t understand most of it!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Wii U GPU core: 320 stream processors, 16 texture mapping units, 8 ROPs<br \/>\n&#8211; GPU: close match to the Radeon HD 4650\/4670<br \/>\n&#8211; Defecit in the number of texture-mapping units and a lower clock speed<br \/>\n&#8211; 550MHz clock speed<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;GCN hardware in Durango and Orbis is in a completely different league&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; RV770 does have 16 TMUs at 550MHz and texture cache improvements<br \/>\n&#8211; This puts it past Xbox 360&#8217;s Xenos GPU<br \/>\n&#8211; It&#8217;s 1.5 times the raw shader power<br \/>\n&#8211; 1080p resolution is around 2.5x that of 720p, so it&#8217;s unlikely that we&#8217;ll be seeing any complex 3D titles running at 1080p<br \/>\n&#8211; Some Wii U ports may be disappointing tecnically due to Wii U&#8217;s 1.2GHz CPU<br \/>\n&#8211; Nature of the second and third banks of RAM is currently unknown<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/df-hardware-wii-u-graphics-power-finally-revealed\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Foundry has put together a comprehensive piece outing new technical details for Wii U. The information was deciphered thanks to reverse-engineering photos provided by Chipworks. We&#8217;ve posted a few Wii U spec bits below. You can find Digital Foundry&#8217;s full report here, but if lack knowledge of hardware like us, you won&#8217;t understand most of it! &#8211; Wii U&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11,58],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Latest Wii U tech details<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/latest-wii-u-tech-details\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Latest Wii U tech details\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Digital Foundry has put together a comprehensive piece outing new technical details for Wii U. 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