Hardware Specification Specs

 

 

NGC Specification Description
Microprocessor Unit (MPU) Custom IBM Power PC "Gekko"
Manufacturing Process 0.18 Microns Copper Wire Technology
Clock Frequency 485MHz
Memory Bus Bandwidth 3.2 GB per second
CPU Capacity 925 Dmips (Dhrystone 2.1)
Internal Data Precision 32bit & 64 bit floating point
External Bus Bandwidth 1.6 GB/second (peak) (32 bit address, 64 bit data bus 162 mhz)
Internal Cache L1: Instruction 32KB, Data 32KB (8 way) L2: 256KB (2 way)
   

NGC Specification Description
System LSI Art-X developed "Flipper" graphics chip
Manufacturing Process 0.18 microns NEC Embedded DRAM
Clock Frequency 162 MHz
Embedded Frame Buffer About 2 MB Sustainable Latency: 5ns (1T-SRAM)
Embedded Texture Cache About 1MB Sustainable Latency: 5ns (1T-SRAM)
Texture Read Bandwidth 10.4 GB/Second (Peak)
Main Memory Bandwidth 2.6 GB/Second (Peak)
Color, Z Buffer Both 24 bits
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

NGC Specification Description
Sound Processor Special 16bit DSP
Instruction Memory 8KB RAM + 8KB ROM
Data Memory 8KB RAM + 4KB ROM
Clock Frequency 81 MHz
Maximum Number of Simultaneously Produced Sounds Sounds ADPCM: 64ch
Sampling Frequency 48KHz
System Floating-point Arithmetic Capability 10.5GFLOPS (Peak)
(MPU, Geometry Engine, HW Lighting Total)
Actual Display Capability: 6 million to 12 million polygons/second
(Display capability assuming actual game with complexity model, texture, etc.)

NGC Specification Description
System Main Memory 24MB Sustainable Latency: 10ns or lower (1T-SRAM)
A Memory 16MB (81MHz DRAM)
Disc Drive CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) system average access time 128ns,
Data transfer speed: 16Mbpsto 25Mbps
Media Media: 8cm Nintendo Gamecube Disc based on Matsushita's optical disc technology – approximately 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/5.9in(W) x 110mm/4.3in(H) x 161mm/6.3in(D)
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