Equate what you expect from the revolution with a graphics card
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I think it will be based on the mid r580 cards . Perhaps clocked a little slower so it wont make as much heat and of course have power saving .
Ati's talk about physics makes me think that any extra power they have in the gpu wil lbe used by nintendo to offset the slower cpu (i'm expecting a dual core cpu )
Ati's talk about physics makes me think that any extra power they have in the gpu wil lbe used by nintendo to offset the slower cpu (i'm expecting a dual core cpu )
I wonder if Nintendo will use that weird animated cube maps patent that we discussed maybe a year ago. If they do, wonder if their graphics chip will feature some kind of acceleration features to render/use such cube maps.
Megadrive1988
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a cross between Flipper and R580 but with half the pipes/ROPs ~400 Mhz clock
Shogmaster
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GwymWeepa said:
I will personally beat up Yamauchi's pet dog if Hollywood is not a SM3.0 part.
I mean seriously yo, it's gonna be 2006 and stuff!
I see something with featureset between X1300Pro and X1600 but at a reasonable clockspeed for the casing like 300Mhz.
The GameMaster
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All things considered...
A new chip based directly on the "Flipper" GPU in the GameCube (they need to retain hardware compatibility) with a higher clock speed and/or more eDRAM.
Asking Nintendo to put a GPU like the Geforce/Radeon in Nintendo's next system would be suicidal due to the heat and power constraints of such a small form factor. Time will tell though...
A new chip based directly on the "Flipper" GPU in the GameCube (they need to retain hardware compatibility) with a higher clock speed and/or more eDRAM.
Asking Nintendo to put a GPU like the Geforce/Radeon in Nintendo's next system would be suicidal due to the heat and power constraints of such a small form factor. Time will tell though...
GwymWeepa said:
GeForce Go 7800GTX... which is about the same chip as can be found in the PS3, but produced on .13nm process as opposed to the .09nm process that the PS3 version will use. That says a lot for how much power you can get into a small package. Personally I`m hoping for power somewhere around X1600.
Here is a link to anandtech
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2557
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Shogmaster
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OICAspork said:
GF Go 7800GTX won't be in anything but 10lbs behemouths like the XPS Dells. The typical GPUs in todays mid size to ultra portable laptops are built into Northbrige low end jobbies.
A laptop, even a small one, is still a lot bigger than what revolution will be. Some laps even use water cooling with the radiator being the top lid... It's a huge difference.OICAspork said:
Guden Oden said:
It's a huge difference because a laptop has a HDD + battery + keyboard and it has to cool everything including the battery and HDD.
Anyway the laptops you mentioned about using the top lid for cooling is rare ie there's only a couple of models out on the market that does that. Regardless it's more about marketing than an actual need for that type of cooling.
A GeForce Go 7800 GTX will work in the Revolution just fine as I've shown with even the desktop variant. In fact the Xenos only consumes about 30W anyway so there's no reason why Revolution cannot use something along the same processing capability as the other two consoles GPUs. The question is, will Nintendo go for it and maybe sell Revolutiion at $250.
PC-Engine said:
There's no need for a reason is it.
I think it will work with 87GB of 1TSRam cartridges. Much more storage and much faster than Bluray discs!!!
Teasy said:
Those things can get quite thin. Considering there's a keyboard on top, those are some thin little things.
