Consoles ranked by "power"

[goatse]

With the least powerful at the top. Tell me if you agree with this.

NES
Turbografx 16
Genesis
SNES
32X
CDi
Jaguar
3DO
Saturn
Playstation
N64
Dreamcast
PS2
Gamecube
Xbox
Wii
Xbox 360
PS3
Wii U
Xbox One
PS4

[Flojomojo]

That seems roughly accurate. You can get very similar results by ranking them in ascending order of release date, which makes for a not-very-interesting conclusion.

For example:

iPhone
iPhone 3G
iPhone 3gs
iPhone 4
iPhone 4s
iPhone 5
iPhone 5s
iPhone 6

[bb_hood]

NES has the most power, hands down.

[Guntz]

What were you guys expecting from a user named "goatse"?

[celerystalker]

What were you guys expecting from a user named "goatse"?

Delicious goatse cheeses and the ability to eat nearly anything. Perhaps three gruff friends named Billy.

[goldenband]

Delicious goatse cheeses

Artisanal cheeses, one would think.

Regarding the OP, the Genesis CPU is more powerful than the one used in the SNES, so right away the premise is problematic. IIRC the Jaguar has more raw horsepower than the 3DO.

[Tanooki]

What were you guys expecting from a user named "goatse"?

A big gaping asshole picture comes to mind, at least what used to be spammed in the 90s with that name to it. Sadly such horrors get burned into memory.

[parallaxscroll]

Not that any of this matters to anyone but since the thread is about console power...

Wii U actually has less performance with its GPU (AMD 'Latte') than the GPU in Xbox 360 (ATI Xenos) or PS3 (Nvidia RSX).

Sources say that Nintendo's new console is not even equal to the current generation

Nintendo's upcoming Wii U console may generate full HD graphics, but it's not up to the graphics power of the Xbox 360 or the PS3

Another developer at a major company confirmed this point of view. "Yeah, that's true. It doesn't produce graphics as well as the PS3 or the 360," said the source. "There aren't as many shaders, it's not as capable. Sure, some things are better, mostly as a result of it being a more modern design. But overall the Wii U just can't quite keep up."

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...developers-say

Wii U's GPU does have a somewhat newer and more modern feature set (Shader Model 4.1 vs 3.0 in the older consoles) but Latte has few shader units (or ALUs) resulting in a lower FLOPS/sec.

Although Wii U's GPU is more efficient than the other two, it is still working with less performance, overall.
Also, the main bandwidth is 12.8 GB/sec, around half that of Xbox 360 (22.5 GB/sec)

The Wii U's triple core CPU (basically three Wii Broadway cores) is also much weaker than either 360's Xenon CPU and PS3's CELL.


Floating point performance of the three graphics chips

Xbox 360 (Xenos) 240 GFLOPS
PS3 GPU (RSX) 192 GFLOPS
Wii U GPU (Latte) 176 GFLOPS