
Wii U GPU and Wii GPU - video card comparison
Wii U GPU
Wii GPU
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name
Latte
Hollywood
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2012
November 2006
Interface
IGP
IGP
Core clock speed
550 MHz
243 MHz
Floating-point performance
352.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
880 million
107 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
160
-
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.800
0.97
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
486 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
3.888 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
N/A
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
N/A
N/A
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A