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| The Nintendo StarCube The Next-Gen Console that looks to take on Sony and Microsoft for Console King. It's power may not match the X-Box but its more powerful than the PS2. This is what Nintendo had to say: Is the NINTENDO GAMECUBE an audio-visual machine or is it a game machine? Our answer to this question is clear. The NINTENDO GAMECUBE focuses on gameplay and is "the ultimate TV game machine and the first of its kind." The Nintendo 64 was a highly advanced piece of hardware. However, because it had such superior capabilities, developers probably felt as if it was a "challenge" for them to produce for it. Because of this, along with complicating software development, N64 gained a reputation of being a difficult system on which to develop games. Additionally, in response to the demand for new types of entertainment from users in the game trade, the scale of games became larger, and frequently special adjustments to software had to be made. This came back to haunt the developers in the form of development costs and it would not be an exaggeration to say that it made software development more challenging. This type of problem, if not solved, could have a dramatic effect on the succeess of the game business. We here at Nintendo decided to focus on solving this issue by creating the NINTENDO GAMECUBE with the purpose of realizing the highest level of performance and to enhance the productivity of software development. This is Nintendo's vision of what a next generation game machine should do. Instead of going for the highest possible performance, which does not contribute to software development, our idea was to create a developer-friendly next generation TV game machine that maintained above-standard capabilities. In order to accomplish this, we have painstakingly removed the "bottlenecks" which hinder an efficient system. We have introduced 1T-RAM technology, which has a minimum of delays, into the main memory and the Graphics LSI Mixed Memory. Also, secondary cache memory with a large capacity was implemented in the MPU. With this combination we have succeeded at creating reliable functionality that can be used with actual games. We have been creating a world in which the player can enjoy the feeling of actually touching the "world" created by the software. In addition, the player can benefit by building a bond with the game and characters in it. The NINTENDO GAMECUBE will carry on the "DNA" of Nintendo games and give birth to a new kind of entertainment that surpasses existing concepts of what great gaming is. The "New Generation of Entertainment" in the 21st Century starts right here. And Here Are The Specs MPU("Microprocessor Unit")* IBM Power PC "Gekko" Manufacturing Process 0.18 microns Copper Wire Technology Clock Frequency 405 MHz CPU Capacity 925 Dmips (Dhrystone 2.1) Internal Data Precision 32bit Integer & 64bit Floating-point External Bus Bandwidth 1.6GB/second(Peak) External Bus Bandwidth 1.6GB/second(Peak) (32bit address, 64bit data bus 202.5MHz) Internal Cache L1: Instruction 32KB, Data 32KB (8 way) L2: 256KB (2 way) Internal Cache L1: Instruction 32KB, Data 32KB (8 way) L2: 256KB (2 way) System LSI "Flipper" Manufacturing Process 0.18 microns NEC Embedded DRAM Process Clock Frequency 202.5MHz Embedded Frame Buffer Approx. 2MB Embedded Frame Buffer Approx. 2MB Sustainable Latency : 5ns (1T-SRAM) Embedded Texture Cache Approx. 1MB Sustainable Latency : 5ns (1T-SRAM) Texture Read Bandwidth 12.8GB/second (Peak) Main Memory Bandwidth 3.2GB/second (Peak) Color, Z Buffer Each is 24bits Image Processing Function Fog, Subpixel Anti-aliasing, HW Light x8, Alpha Blending, Virtual Texture Design, Multi-texture Mapping/Bump/Environment Mapping, MIPMAP, Bilinear Filtering, Real-time Texture Decompression (S3TC), etc. Other Real-time Decompression of Display List, HW Motion Compensation Capability *The Gekko MPU integrates the power PC CPU into a custom, game-centric chip. (The following sound related functions are all incorporated into the System LSI) Sound Processor Special 16bit DSP Instruction Memory 8KB RAM + 8KB ROM Instruction Memory 8KB RAM + 8KB ROM Data Memory 8KB RAM + 4KB ROM Clock Frequency 101.25 MHz Maximum Number of Simultaneously Produced Sounds ADPCM: 64ch Sampling Frequency 48KHz System Floating-point Arithmetic Capability 13.0GFLOPS (Peak) (MPU, Geometry Engine, HW Lighting Total) Actual Display Capability 6 million to 12 million polygons/second Actual Display Capability 6 million to 12 million polygons/second (Display capability assuming actual game with complexity model, texture, etc.) System Main Memory 24MB Sustainable Latency : 10ns or lower (1T-SRAM) A-Memory 16MB (100MHz DRAM) Disc Drive CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) System Disc Drive CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) System Average Access Time Data Transfer Speed 16Mbps to 25Mbps 128ms Media 8cm NINTENDO GAMECUBE Disc based on Matsushita's Optical Disc Technology Media 8cm NINTENDO GAMECUBE Disc based on Matsushita's Optical Disc Technology Approx. 1.5GB Capacity Input/Output Controller Port x4 Digicard Slot x2 Analog AV Output x1 Digital AV Output x1 High-Speed Serial Port x2 High-speed Parallel Port x1 Power Supply AC Adapter DC12V x 3.5A Main Unit Dimensions 150mm(W) x 110mm(H) x 161mm(D) This WebPage Was Put Together By The No1 GameCube Site |
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