Nintendo has not released any official information on the specifications of Revolution. Heck, we don’t even know the true name yet. However now some inofficial information on the console has arrived from an employee at game developer Factor 5. The same eomplyee that revealed the Xbox 360’s specifactions that turned out to be more or less exact. In other terms these misght just be the real deal. if these are correct things don’t look all that bad to be honest even if we are a bit spoiled with Microsoft and Sony’s super advanced hardware.
the specifications can summarised as follows:
- 1 dual-threaded IBM Custom PowerPC 2.5 GHz core with 256KB of L1 cache, 1MB of L2 cache, and maybe a rumored L3 cache as well.
- 256MB of 1T-SRAM for an ATI Custom-based RN520 600 MHz GPU that will support up to 2048×1268 resolution, though HD support is still being decided.
- 512MB of 700 MHz 1T-SRAM for the Revolution’s main memory.
- And an extra 32MB just for a Physical Processing Unit (PPU) chip to help the CPU and GPU with the processing load.
It looks quite promising from a hardware perspective for Nintendo Revolution, as we were expecting quite less. We don’t know if these are correct, or even close, but if they are they will together with the revolutionising controller really turn things right again for Nintendo.
Source: Joystiq
