im going to resume something found on the internet
CPU
the wii uses a Broadway chip, a derivated of the "PowerPC 750 CL clocked at 729Mhz", better than the Gecko chip of GC cloaked at 485Mhz, broadway is connected to main memory by a 64-bit bus clocked at 243Mhz, resulting in a 1.9GB/s of memory bandwidth. It contains two separate eight-way associative L1 caches, one for instructions and one for data, as well as a 256KB two-way associative L2 cache
GPU
Hollywood, the Wii's GPU,i t is based on the GameCube's GPU, Flipper, and has no notable increases in programmability. However, it is clocked 50 percent higher (243Mhz versus 162Mhz). Most of the chip remains unchanged; for example, it still sports the same 3.1MB of embedded memory, distributed into separate pools for the frame buffer and textures.Like in the GameCube, It is possible to emulate some pixel shaders by using "texture environment stages (TEVs)." While some have reported that the Wii is capable of sixteen TEVs compared to the GameCube's eight, making it easier to program, tihs is not the case.
Memory in the Wii is divided into two separate pools, both of which can be directly addressed by both the GPU and CPU. This is a minor improvement over the GameCube, which had an auxiliary 16MB pool that could not be directly accessed by the CPU. The first memory pool is a 24MB 1T-SRAM chip, clocked at 486Mhz and with a reported bandwidth of 3.9GB/s. The second memory pool is a 64MB Samsung GDDR3 module, clocked at 500Mhz and with a bandwidth of about 4GB/s.
To summarize, while the PS3 and the Xbox 360 are both at least an order of magnitude faster than their predecessors, the Wii has the processing power of one-and-a-half GameCubes with no noteworthy increases in functionality. This was done for two reasons: backwards compatibility with the GameCube and, more importantly, the very low cost
i just copy paste, to the people who want to know better it
okay, now what i think:
the videogames need to great things:
graphics and gameplay
as you can see, the wii is more like a gamecube, but better.The thing is that nintendo make a console trying to make this two things so people can enjoy the game, not like making a game with great graphics but with a broken gameplay (example: lair, man that game sux :evil: )
but now people seems to like better graphics and make poor games like LAIR.
the wii doesnt have the power as an XBOX, is like almost an XBOX but no.
For example, is like playing a game that needs 1gb of ram in a computer with 750mb of ram, it can, but not as good as 1gb
and yes, the wii has the worst graphics of the 3d gen console, but i like it
:D :D :D :D
( i hope they make a better console for the 4th gen)
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