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Rumor: Nintendo Revolution Specs

Tue, Sep 27, 2005

Gaming

Nintendo Revolution

Here’s the latest (rumored) specs concerning the Big N’s Revolution console:

  • 1 IBM Custom PowerPC 2.5 GHz (dual-thread) with 256 KB Level-1 and 1MB of Level-2 cache (L3 cache is rumored)
  • ATI Custom based RN520 core
  • 13 billion dot product per second
  • 600 MHz
  • 2048×1268 max resolution
  • 256 MB of 1T-SRAM
  • 32 shader pipelines
  • Peak Geometry Performance: 500 million tri/sec
  • Peak Shader Performance: ~50 billion shader ops/sec
  • System Memory: 512 MB of 1T-SRAM (700 MHz)
  • Physics Processing Unit with 32 MB of dedicated RAM, which will link to the CPU and GPU.
  • Separate sound card that will support only DD 5.1 – DTS 7.1. Rumors of it having 16 MB like the GameCube DSP have been flying around.

Originally from Ubergizmo, the Gadgets Blog on September 26, 2005, 10:22am

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