Revolution may not be as fast as expected
Posted March 31, 2006 at 06:57 AM by Adam Berger
Section: Gaming
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.