Revolution's graphics subsystem: 2 sep cores - ATI AMR ?

[Megadrive1988]

from GAF, quote Hollywood ...fitting name huh

Sorry just turned out to be a filibuster.

Anyway, to clear some other things up: the final design for the Revolution hasn’t been decided upon yet. At least, not as far as we know over here. So this could mean that they’ll actually show some prototype of the final design at E3, just like they did with the DS last year. Of course we have an SDK, but that machine probably wont look like the final design either. Just like with the current SDK’s for the Xbox 360.


As for specs, since you seem to be really privy on them, the Revolution will indeed support both 720p as well as 1080i. The GPU of the console packs quite a punch. It’s actually two cores linked together with ATi’s alternative on nVidia’s SLI. Though no releasedate has probably been determined yet by Nintendo (current releasedate looks to be around March next year in Japan), this could mean that Revolution will be the first device to support this ATi technology. Even before they introduce it to the PC market.

Now the cores themselves are completely custom-made by a different team than the core for the Xbox 360. It’s known as the RN520, where the N actually stands for Nintendo. One core in itself, isn’t as fast as the R500-ish core of the Xbox 360, but together they are quite a bit more powerful. The CPU consists of four cores each running at 2,5 GHz and is based on the G5 architecture. Each core has it’s own 128KB L1 cachememory, and they all share a L2 cache of 512KB. Next to this, the CPU and GPU share 512MB of memory, just like the Xbox 360 does. Also, the GPU has it’s own on-die memory for quick tasks which amounts to 16MB of eDRAM.

There’s also a seperate processor for sound, which is quite advanced and takes a lot of workload off the CPU. Last but not least, the Revolution features a PPU for complex physics, which utilizes it’s own 32MB of memory. So all in all, it’s quite the complex machine with many different processors. Still, it’s rather easy to develop for because of the excellent development tools which Nintendo delivered. These are all GameCube based with a lot of completely new features built-in

 

[Carl B]

Well well, very interesting! Is there a link to the quote? Or I guess you could just skip that and tell us in your own mind what you feel the credibility factor of this is, on a scale of one-to-ten.

Am I right to assume that this was a post by 'some guy?'

I have little doubt that the Revolution will end up more powerful than the 360, but if it trumped Cell and the PS3 as well, and went on to be the most powerful console of the generation? I mean, we're talking paradigm shift!

 

[Megadrive1988]

Well well, very interesting! Is there a link to the quote? Or I guess you could just skip that and tell us in your own mind what you feel the credibility factor of this is, on a scale of one-to-ten.

Am I right to assume that this was a post by 'some guy?'

yep, there's a link - sorry forgot about that. 8)

 

[pc999]

Very,very,very hard to belive, IMO.

 

[Qroach]

lol yeah right. look at these so called specs:

4 CPU cores on a single die
2 ATI graphics chip
A PPU
A sound chip
512 MB
16 MB EDram

Ummm, I don't think this is real at all, it sounds way too exagerated.

 

[gurgi]

lol yeah right. look at these so called specs:

4 CPU cores on a single die
2 ATI graphics chip
A PPU
A sound chip
512 MB
16 MB EDram

Ummm, I don't think this is real at all, it sounds way too exagerated.

Heh, you think? =P

 

[Carl B]

Thanks for the link Megadrive!

Well, after reading it, I'm giving it a credibility score of... 4. Quad-core Power5 processor variants stands out as one oddity, and the whole system in general seems very expensive. But an interesting read nonetheless!

EDIT: Rather, G5 not Power5. In fact that just makes it all the less likely in my opinion, as they probably would have refered to it in terms of 'Power' and not 'G' if it were real.

 

[pc999]

I think that the "info" in the 20 post it is more interesting.

http://www.ga-forum.com/showpost.ph...694ef31aa83bda&p=1290555&postcount=20

Even if is not the most powerfull, I think it do have more intersting ideas.

Althought it would require a lot of CPU power only for input

 

[Qroach]

The thing that puts it over the top is the ide of a 4 cores, a PPU and a audio chip. If you have 4 cores to work with why the heck would you need a PPU? I mean, ar eyou gonna use all 4 coores for AI and game logic? also why would you need an audio more advanced then what gamecube is using now or any other console is using now?

 

[therealskywolf]

What a bunch of BS lol

 

[Qroach]

At the same time this man is pretending to be a developer, trying to create a fanbase surrounding him. The IP I tracked lead me to information to his company info which was “Fifth Third Bankâ€￾.

HeHe I think this says it all. The guys says he's working on a new Vectorman, but doesn't go on to list sega as one of his revoloution developers. This is all fake and nonsesne.

 

[EndR]

*saw the specs*

*feels better*

 

[Guden Oden]

Whadda bunch of lies. Four G5 cores? Prepostrous...

 

[DuckThor Evil]

It’s actually two cores linked together with ATi’s alternative on nVidia’s SLI. this could mean that Revolution will be the first device to support this ATi technology. Even before they introduce it to the PC market.

Well that's bs, because r520 will support that technology, and it's coming out this summer or the very least sooner than N5.

 

[jvd]

I can believe the ram amount

I can believe the ppu

I can believe the dual gpus

I can believe the quad cpu

I can believe the sound chip

I can't believe them all together .

I would think this is more likely

512 megs
1 ppu
dual gpus
and a dual core g5 cpu .

That i could believe coming from nintendo

 

[Megadrive1988]

Thanks for the link Megadrive!

Well, after reading it, I'm giving it a credibility score of... 4. Quad-core Power5 processor variants stands out as one oddity, and the whole system in general seems very expensive. But an interesting read nonetheless!

EDIT: Rather, G5 not Power5. In fact that just makes it all the less likely in my opinion, as they probably would have refered to it in terms of 'Power' and not 'G' if it were real.

welcome.

hmmm,,,,

I find a 4-core / quad-core / 4-processor CPU to be less of an oddity than Xenon's tri-core CPU.

 

[BOOMEXPLODE]

man that would be an awesome system...please let it be true Nintendo 0_0

 

[Megadrive1988]

how about a "4 core" CPU with 2 actual PowerPC / Power cores, an integrated PPU core and an integrated audio processing core

 

[Megadrive1988]

I can believe the ram amount

I can believe the ppu

I can believe the dual gpus

I can believe the quad cpu

I can believe the sound chip

I can't believe them all together .

I would think this is more likely

512 megs
1 ppu
dual gpus
and a dual core g5 cpu .

That i could believe coming from nintendo

I can believe that

 

[GwymWeepa]

Let's not forget the holographic storage technology and the VR. What other wishful dreams do we want in it? Honestly, 4 cores, a PPU, TWO GPU's and a seperate sound chip is a heaping load of bs. But who knows, maybe Nintendo is desperate, but I doubt it. I think they are relying on the "revolutionary" aspect to the revolution to differentiate the product so that they DO NOT have to produce such specs to compete.