Original URL: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/30/nintendo_rev_chip_specs/
Nintendo's Revolution console will be powered by a 729MHz processor - 50 per cent more clock cycles than its predecessor in the GameCube - and a graphics chip set to run at 243MHz, it has been claimed.
The details come courtesy (http://revolution.ign.com/articles/699/699118p1.html) of IGN which claims to have got the numbers from game development studio sources. As Nintendo has itself said in the past, the Revolution's CPU is being custom-made by IBM and is based on the PowerPC architecture, as was the GameCube's processor. Codenamed 'Broadway', the new chip contains not only the processing core, but additional DSP functionality, I/O control circuitry and 3MB of texture memory.
The sources claim the console will contain a further 24MB of main memory. Like the GameCube, Revolution will use MoSys' 1T-SRAM technology, which brings SRAM speeds to the kind of capacities only DRAM can offer. The 24MB are described as "internal" memory, and there's said to be a further 64MB of "external" 1T-SRAM, presumably on some sort of card, though whether it's user-accessible isn't clear at this stage.
The device is also said to contain 512MB of Flash memory.
Broadway connects to 'Hollywood', the ATI-designed GPU, which is likewise clocked 50 per cent higher than the GameCube's GPU. ®
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