| Official Name |
Nintendo Game Cube |
| MPU("Microprocessor Unit") |
IBM Power PC "Gekko" |
| Manufacturing Process |
0.18 microns Copper Wire
Technology |
| Clock Frequency |
405 MHz |
| CPU Capacity |
925 Dmips (Dhrystone 2.1) |
| Internal Data Precision |
32bit Integer & 64bit Floating-point |
| External Bus Bandwidth |
1.6GB/second(Peak) (32bit
address, 64bit data bus 202.5MHz) |
| Internal Cache
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L1: Instruction 32KB, Data
32KB (8 way) L2: 256KB (2 way) |
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| System LSI |
"Flipper" |
| Manufacturing Process |
0.18 microns NEC Embedded
DRAM Process |
| Clock Frequency |
202.5MHz |
| Embedded Frame Buffer |
Approx. 2MB Sustainable
Latency : 5ns (1T-SRAM) |
| Embedded Texture Cache |
Approx. 1MB Sustainable
Latency : 5ns (1T-SRAM) |
| Texture Read Bandwidth
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12.8GB/second (Peak) |
| Main Memory Bandwidth |
3.2GB/second (Peak) |
| Color, Z Buffer |
Each is 24bits |
| 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 |
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| Sound Processor |
Special 16bit DSP |
| Instruction Memory |
8KB RAM + 8KB ROM |
| Data Memory |
8KB RAM + 4KB ROM |
| Clock Frequency |
101.25mhz |
| Maximum Number of Simultaneously
Produced Sounds |
ADPCM: 64ch |
| Sampling Frequency |
48KHz |
| System Floating-point Arithmetic
Capability |
13.0GFLOPS (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.) |
| System Main Memory |
24MB Sustainable Latency
: 10ns or lower (1T-SRAM) |
| A-Memory |
16MB (100MHz
DRAM) |
| Disc Drive
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CAV (Constant Angular Velocity)
System Average Access Time Data Transfer Speed 16Mbps
to 25Mbps 128ms |
| Media |
8cm Gamecube Disc based
on Matsushita's Optical Disc Technology Approx. 1.5GB
Capacity |
| Power Supply |
AC Adapter DC12V x 3.5A |
| Main Unit Dimensions |
150mm(W) x 110mm(H) x 161mm(D) |