Wondering how the 8th gen video game consoles compare? Here is a side-by-side rundown of the specifications known so far. The clear winner is the PlayStation 4 beating the Xbox One with its higher powered GDDR5 RAM… oh and the fact that it’s $100 less and they let you trade games forever.
 Wii U |
 PS4 |
 Xbox One |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | 3 Core 1.24GHz IBM PowerPC 750-based |
8 Core 2GHz max¹ AMD Jaguar APU x86-64 |
8 Core 2GHz max¹ AMD Jaguar APU x86-64 |
| GPU | AMD Radeon 0.24 TFLOPS 550Mhz 320 Cores (non-integrated) |
AMD Radeon 1.84 TFLOPS 800MHz 1152 Cores (integrated in APU) |
AMD Radeon 1.23 TFLOPS 853MHz 768 Cores (integrated in APU) |
| RAM | 2GB DDR3 1600MHz 12.8GB/s bandwidth (1GB reserved for OS) |
8GB GDDR5 5500MHz 176GB/s bandwidth |
8GB DDR3 2133MHz 68.3GB/s bandwidth (3GB reserved for OS) |
| Storage | 32GB Flash (deluxe) 8GB Flash (basic) |
500GB HDD | 500GB HDD |
| Media | 25GB SL Wii U Optical Disc | 25GB SL Blu-ray 50GB DL Blu-ray |
25GB SL Blu-ray 50GB DL Blu-ray |
| Price | $299/$349 | $399 | $499 |
¹ Jaguar 28nm APU is good for up to 2GHz [source]