[Rumor] Documento revela especificações técnicas do Wii U

Um documento que apareceu na E3 2012 originÁrio de um kit de desenvolvimento de jogos para Wii U revelou, ao que parecer ser, as especificações técnicas oficiais do novo console da Nintendo. Antes de começar a ler as informações abaixo, é vÁlido salientar que nada foi oficialmente divulgado pela gigante japonesa.

• 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.
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

• 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.

O Wii U, que estÁ cotado para ser lançado até o final deste ano, não possui preço definido.