Wii U has 1.24GHz CPU, 550MHz graphics core - report

The record

Author: Richard Leadbetter
Type: Independent analysis
Tier: B: A high-quality independent analysis. Two agreeing tier B sources are needed to publish a figure.
Locator: Body text, the quoted post giving the processor and graphics frequencies
Published: November 2012
Consulted: 2026-08-15
Address: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/articles/digitalfoundry-wii-hacker-reveals-wii-u-cpu-secrets
Retrieved: 97291 bytes, SHA-256 96a6453ab2e285ba… Recorded by the pipeline as evidence of what was downloaded, never as a fact about the hardware.
License: Copyright Digital Foundry. Quoted here under short-extract fair use for verification of the figures cited.
Usage: The provenance is unusual and the article says so in its own headline: the frequencies come from a hacker reading them out of the shipped console, and the publication reports them under the word "report" while explaining who he is and why the figures carry weight. That is a chain this catalog can describe but not upgrade — one publication stating a figure it did not itself measure — so the frequencies stay provisional. Nintendo has never published a frequency for this console to compare them against.