Wii U graphic running on last-gen Radeon, still more awesome then Xbox 360 and PS3

When you buy computers, you'll do research on their hardware specs, but not for consoles. Well at least they're not famous for their hardware specs. Even if someone tells you that Sony's PS3 is powered by a vector-type Cell processor, you won't know what that means.

And so, Nintendo announced their next Wii, which is the Wii U Wii U which sounds like the police's siren. Apparently Nintendo's Wii U console will come packing a custom Radeon GPU with a chip similar to the R770, and that the chip is competitively stronger than the GPUs of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but will you care? No...

Anyway, the chip is said to run DirectX 10, and is capable of handling four SD video streams — presumably only one of those streams will be necessary, however, given Shigeru Miyamoto's statements about the WiiPad. As GAME Watch points out, the Xbox 360 was limited to a variation of DirectX 9, while the PS3 employs OpenGL APIs.

But now we've gone right off the deep end — what we're trying to say is this: the Wii U has a pretty decent graphical processor. Or, more simply, Wii U games will look good, and likely even better than Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games. There, that wasn't so bad!

Last gen... that should be the Radeon Cypress which is considered quite impressive and will easily runs games with high settings on 1080p smoothly, well... almost all games anyway.
source: 2DayBlog.com