Monday, September 26, 2005

Rumoured Specs

These are the set of Revolution specs that have been floating around the internet for the past few days. Supposedly leaked by Factor 5 employee "Hans Solo", the specs outline the Revolution's performances in terms of power and graphics.

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)


These specs have been considered fake, but it is interesting to read nevertheless.

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