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Rumoured: Nintendo Revolution Specs.

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(Source : Unknown, it was emailed to me)
Revolution CPU:
Processor: (1) IBM Custom Power-PC 2.5 GHz dual-threaded
Cache: 256 KB L1 cache, 1 MB of L2 cache (an L3 cache rumoured)
13 billion dot product operations per second

Revolution memory:
512 MB of 700 MHz 1T-SRAM

Revolution GPU:
Core: ATI Custom based RN520 core
GPU core at 600 MHz
Resolution: Support up to 2048 x 1268 pixels
HD support: Still being decided
Memory: 256 MB of 1T-SRAM (the RAM is supposedly better due to some "tweaking" compared to GC’s RAM. The latency, around 1.2 ns on average, and cells are much more efficient and faster).
Pipelines: 32 parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines.
Polygon Performance: 500 million triangles per second theoretical, average in-game would be <100 million/sec
Shader Performance: ~50 billion shader operations per second

Other Info:
Revolution will support a PPU chip (Physical Processing Chip). There will be 32 MB of its own RAM, which will link to the CPU and GPU and the controller. There will also be a separate sound card that will support only DD 5.1 - DTS 7.1 (rumour has it with 16 MB, like the Nintendo Cube DSP).

Whether these specs are true, remains to be seen.

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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 66
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    Ohh great, now people can start claining tht the PS3 is clearly more powerfull than the revolution!!

    Specs are the least of my concerns with the revolution, this is a games machine, its all about the games. Lets see some games up and running.
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    ogrynogryn Posts: 3,729
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    Have a read of the Cube IGN Mailbag today... (although their spec sheet emailed to them is different IIRC)
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    Matt, have you seen these Revolution specs that leaked on the Internet? Are they real?

    | Codename Revolution |

    Central Processing Unit:

    * Custom IBM CPU "Broadway"
    * 1x IBM PowerPC 970 core @ 3.0 GHz
    * 256 kB L1 cache
    * Single core and multicore operation modes
    * 2x IBM PowerPC 970FX cores @ 2.5 GHz
    * 2x 128 kB L1 cache
    * Optional activation for multicore
    * Low power consumption

    1 MB L2 cache

    * 32-bit integer, 64-bit floating point
    * Two threads per core, six threads total
    * 11 billion dot product operations/second (peak)

    Graphics Processing Unit:

    * Custom ATI GPU "Hollywood"
    * Dual customized ATI R520 cores @ 500 MHz
    * ATI "Crossfire" dual core technology
    * 10 MB embedded EDRAM
    * 2x 128 MB GDDR4 graphics memory @ 1.25 GHz
    * 50 GB/second texture bandwith (peak)
    * Next-gen hardware prestations
    * 2048x1536 maximum resolution (DVI)
    * 1920x1080 maximum resolution (1080i)
    * 650 million triangles/second (peak)
    * 100 million polygons/second (expected performance)
    * 112 million shader operations/second (peak)
    * 56 million shader operations/second (expected performance)

    Physics Processing Unit:

    * Custom AGEIA PPU
    * Customized AGEIA PhysX PPU @ 400 MHz
    * Hardware physics acceleration
    * 32 MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM physics memory @ 400 MHz

    Sound Processing Unit:

    * Custom NEC Sound DSP
    * Custom NEC digital signal processor
    * 256 simultaneous channels
    * 196 KHz maximum sample rate
    * Sound ADPCM encoding
    * Dolby Pro Logic II, Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby DTS support
    * 16 MB embedded SRAM sound memory

    Memory:

    * 512 MB 1T-SRAM @ 900 MHz main memory
    * No memory read delay
    * 10 MB EDRAM @ 500 MHz embedded video memory
    * 2x 128 MB GDDR4 @ 1.25 GHz graphics memory
    * 32 MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM @ 400 MHz physics memory
    * 16 MB SRAM sound memory
    * Total of 826 MB RAM

    Miscellaneous system data:

    * 1.2 billion floating point operations/second (peak)
    * 65 nm manufacturing process
    * Liquid metal cooling
    * 65x better heat conduction than water
    * No fans or pumps involved

    Media:

    * Custom Panasonic 12 cm discs
    * 12 GB data storage
    * CD/DVD support
    * Supports DVD-9, DVD-5, DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW, Audio DVD, SVCD, VCD and audio CD.
    * 16x DVD speed, 21.6 MBit/second data transfer

    Data storage:

    * 4 MB embedded EDROM (system utilities)
    * 512 MB embedded Flash ROM (data storage)
    * 2x SecureDigital memory card slot
    * 64 Mbit/second read speed (peak)
    * 16 Mbit/second write speed (peak)
    * Supports up to 16 GB per slot
    * 2x Nintendo GameCube Memory Card slots
    * 4 Mbit/second read speed (peak)
    * 2 Mbit/second write speed (peak)

    Networking:

    * 802.11g compliant network chip
    * 54 Mbit/second data transfer (peak)
    * Backward compatible with 802.11b protocol
    * Compatible with any 802.11g / 802.11b router, as well as the Nintendo PC Access Point and Nintendo DS
    * 150 ft range (peak)
    * 50 ft range (expected inhouse performance)

    Matt responds: Sweet Jebus! If you're going to send me these long spec lists, at least have the courtesy to format them first. I mean, it took me like six minutes to properly list all of that crap! And for what? Just so that I could write that these specs are totally bogus and insanely inflated. Honestly, Revolution isn't going to be anywhere near that in terms of power and memory. I wish I could paste some of the cackles I got from industry folks when I showed them those crazy specs.

    Oh well, at least that list filled up the mailbag section nicely -- and for that, I am thankful.

    Oh, by the way, there seems to be an abundance of douchebags on the Internet who claim to have so-called leaked Revolution specs. Some joker calling himself 'Han Solo' alleges that he is an employee of Factor 5 and has specs for the system. As expected, he is a liar. Here's what F5 president Julian Eggebrecht has to say on the subject:

    "Han Solo is a scoundrel, we all know that, but in this case he isn´t a very clever scoundrel. That so-called employee of ours posting on message boards under the Han Solo name certainly isn´t employed at Factor 5 or working in any way for us. He isn´t speaking for the company and he better change his story as to where he has his information from, or we will be forced to take legal action against him."

    Incidentally, Mr. Solo's specs are likewise completely bogus. These people really seem to get a kick out of making up completely outlandish spec lists. I really want to get in on the fun. Let me try.

    I have a friend who works for Camelot Software, and according to him, Revolution features 1 billion megabytes of embedded 1T-SRAM and its ATI-designed graphics chip runs both at 1.2 gigawatts and is simultaneously able to travel back to 1955 whenever it clocks speeds beyond 88 miles per hour. Spread the word!
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