Revolution may not be as fast as expected

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Revolution may not be as fast as expected

by Adam Berger on Mar 31, 2006 at 06:57 AM

Nintendo Revolution IGN is reporting that Nintendo’s next generation gaming consol may not be as fast as previously expected. The new information is supposedly from official Nintendo documentation and claim to have run benchmarks on the IBM-supplied Broadway CPU and ATI’s Hollywood GPU in dev kits that are similar in design to final production units.

The specs have changed as follows:

The rumored 1.8GHz processor (possibly as high as 2.5GHz) has been decreased to 729MHz (compared to 485MHz on the GameCube, 733MHz for the original Xbox, three cores running at 3.2GHz on the 360, and the Cell processor in the PS3).

The supposed 600MHz ATI chip is now only 243MHz (with 3MB of texture memory).

Total RAM is down to 88MB

These numbers really do make sense since Nintendo has been talking revolution up as a true next generation gaming machine (which the gyro controller certainly is), and faster/larger does not necessary mean better, for gaming at least.

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A.H said:

It’s obvious that Nintendo isn’t counting on the hardware, they expect to make up for it in their low prices and games.

A.H
on March 31, 2006 at 05:15 PM - LINK
cubeboy101 said:

erm no mate ITS A APRIL FOOLS JOKE FINAL SPECS WILL BE AVALBLE FROM JUNE AS HAS ALLREADY BEEN REPORTED THERE BLANTANTLY PLAYING ANTI NINTENDO GAMES AS ALLWAYSIGN ARE PRO MICROSOFT AND HAVE BLATANTLY MADE UP SPECS BASED ON XBOX RAM SIZE AND XBOX CPU CLOCK ITS A SAD ATTEMPT AT SLANDERING REVOLUTION BEFORE IT STEALS THE SHOW AT E3 2006 MATT AT IGN CLEARLY FERES NINTENDO AND HAND ON HEART KNOWS 360 IS OBSELETE LOOK AT ITS OUT DATED NON 3D CONTROLLER
on April 2, 2006 at 10:58 PM - LINK
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