Here's a different spin on the news:
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=62069
So it maybe is more than a doubleclocked Flipper. I could handle an advanced architecture with only twice the data throughput of Flipper. I'd be fine. Really.
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=62069
While Broadway is well-understood by developers, the ATI part remains "a bit of a black box", according to one senior developer we spoke to. "We have theoretical throughput figures and stats from Nintendo, but no body's seen the hardware yet - we're just treating it like it's a faster version of the GameCube GPU, at the moment."
How much faster exactly it will be remains to be seen, but the chip - which "seems to be an evolution of the Radeon range" according to our source - will probably mirror the CPU by running at around twice to three times the speed of the existing part.
So it maybe is more than a doubleclocked Flipper. I could handle an advanced architecture with only twice the data throughput of Flipper. I'd be fine. Really.