Monday, July 11, 2005

Serious Specs

SeriousGamer posted a new list of specs for the Revolution on his blog today that are a lot more in-depth than before. Here they are:

Nintendo Revolution Performance Specifications

Custom IBM PowerPC-based on Power5+ Technology
4 symmetrical cores running at 2.7GHz each
Two hardware threads per core


VMX-128 vector unit per core


2 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance

20 billion dot product operations per second

Dual Core ATI Graphics Processor Based on X800XT

24 MB of embedded DRAM

128-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines

Unified shader architecture

Polygon Performance

550 million triangles per second

Pixel Fill Rate

24 gigasamples per second fill rate using 4x MSAA

Shader Performance

86 billion shader operations per second

Memory

512 MB of Mosys 1T-SRAM developed in conjunction with NEC

Unified memory architecture

Memory Bandwidth Total

409.6 GB/S

TotalOverall System Floating-Point Performance

2.26 teraflop

Storage

512 MB Internal Flash Memory

12x dual-layer DVD-ROM
Custom Proprietary Disc
Handles both 8 cm and 12 cm discs

If that what it was, that would be nice. Personally I'd be kinda surprised if they could fit all that into that small box. The processor is the surprising part to me being 4 cores. All-in-all though, it's possible.

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