neeyik.info - Console Specifications

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Console manufacturers are notoriously shy at providing specific hardware details to the general public. Therefore, the following information is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate and subject to change without notice - much of the finer points have been gleaned through Internet-based research, as well as suggestions from other people, and may be based on indirect evidence or rumours.

3D consoles	Microsoft		Nintendo			Sega		Sony
	Xbox	Xbox 360	N64	Gamecube	Wii	Saturn	Dreamcast	PlayStation	PlayStation 2	PlayStation 3
Main CPU Details
Codename	-	Xenon	R4300	Gekko	Broadway	SH2	SH4	R3000A	Emotion Engine	Cell
Manufacturer / Designer	Intel	IBM	NEC	PowerPC / IBM	IBM	Hitachi	Hitachi	MIPS / LSI	Toshiba	Toshiba / IBM
Process scale (nm)	180	90 / 65¹³	350	180	90	~500?	250	~500? ¹	See notes	90
Transistors (millions)	9	165	4	21	~35?	? ⁷	3.2	See notes	10.5	234
Integer register size (bits)	32	128	64	32	32	32	32	32	128	128
FP register size (bits)	128	128	64	64	64	-	32	32	128	128
Core clock speed (MHz)	733	3200 ³	94	485	730?	28.6	200	34	300	3200
L1 cache size (KiB)	32	64 (each)	24	64	64?	4	24	5	40 ¹¹	64 ⁹
L2 cache size (KiB)	128	1024 (shared)	-	256	256?	-	-	-	-	512 / 256 ⁹
FSB bandwidth (GB/sec)	1.07	21.6	0.25	1.29	?	?	0.8	0.14	2.4	up to 76.8 ¹⁰

Main graphics details
Codename	NV2A	Xenos	Reality Co-processor	Flipper	Hollywood	VDP	CLX2	?	Graphics Synthesizer	RSX Reality Synthesizer
Manufacturer / Designer	NVIDIA	ATI	Nintendo / SGI	ArtX / ATI	ATI	?	NEC / PowerVR	Sony?	Sony	NVIDIA
Process scale (nm)	180	90 / 80 / 65¹³	350	180	90?	~500?	250	~500?	See notes	90
Transistors (millions)	~60 ¹	232 / 105 ⁶	?	51 ¹	?	? ⁷	10	?	42.7	~240
Core clock speed (MHz)	233	500	62.5	162	243?	?	100	33	147	550
Pixel pipelines	4	48	1?	4	4?	1?	2	1	16	24
Max pixel output per clock	4	8	0.5	4	4?	1?	2	1	16 ^₁₂	8
Max texels applied per clock	8	16	1	4	4?	1?	2	1	8	24
Max pixel depth (bits)	32	32 / 64	21 / 32	24	24?	24	32²	24	32	32 / 64
Max z-buffer depth (bits)	24	32	16	24	24?	-	~32²	-	32	24

System memory details
Total RAM (MiB)	64	512	4 ⁸	24 / 16	64 / 24	2	16	2	32	256
- type	DDR SDRAM	GDDR3	RDRAM	SRAM / DRAM	GDDR3 / SDRAM	DRAM?	DRAM	DRAM	RDRAM	XDR DRAM
- bandwidth (GB/sec)	6.4	22.4¹⁴	0.55	2.6	~4 / 3.9?	?	0.8	0.13	3.2	25.6
Dedicated video RAM (MiB)	-	10	-	3	3?	1.54	8	1	4	256
- type	-	eDRAM ⁴	-	embedded SRAM	embedded SRAM	DRAM?	DRAM	DRAM	eDRAM	GDDR3
- frame buffer bandwidth (GB/sec)	-	32 / 256 ⁵	-	10.4	~15.6?	?	0.8	0.13?	37.5	22.4
- texture bandwidth (GB/sec)	-	22.4	-	10.4	~15.6?	?	0.8	0.13?	9.4	22.4

Theoretical peak performance
Polygons per second (millions)	~117 ^TR	1500 ^TR	~0.15	32 ^TR	~50 ^TR?	0.5	7	0.36	66 ^TR	1200 ^TR
Pixels processed per second (Mpixels/sec)	933	6000	~31	648	~950?	?	100+	33	2352	13200
Pixel fill rate (Mpixels/sec)	933	4000	~31	648	~950?	~4?	100+	33	2352	4400
Texel fill rate (Mtexels/sec)	1866	8000	~31	648	~950?	~4?	100+	33	1176	13200

3D Handheld Consoles	Apple		Nintendo			Sony
	iPhone / iPod Touch	iPhone 3GS	Nintendo GBA	Nintendo DS / Lite	Nintendo DSi	PSP 1000	PSP 2000 / 3000	PSP Go
Main CPU Details
Codename	ARM1176 JZ(F)-S	Cortex A8	ARM7	ARM946E-S / ARM7	ARM946E-S / ARM7	R4000	R4000	?
Manufacturer / Designer	ARM	ARM	ARM	ARM	ARM	MIPS	MIPS	?
Process scale (nm)	90	65	?	?	?	90	90	?
Transistors (millions)	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Integer register size (bits)	32	32	32	32 / 32	32 / 32	32	32	?
FP register size (bits)	64	64	?	?	?	64?	64?	?
Core clock speed (MHz)	412	600	16.7	67 / 33	67 / 33	up to 333	up to 333	?
L1 cache size (KiB)	32	64	-	12?	12?	32?	32?	?
L2 cache size (KiB)	-	256	-	-	-	-	-	?
FSB bandwidth (GB/sec)	?	?	0.07	?	?	?	?	?

Main graphics details
Codename	PowerVR MBX Lite	PowerVR SGX 520?	-	-	-	-	-	?
Manufacturer / Designer	Imagination Tech	Imagination Tech	-	-	-	Sony?	Sony?	?
Process scale (nm)	90	65	-	-	-	90	90	?
Transistors (millions)	?	?	-	-	-	?	?	?
Core clock speed (MHz)?	?	?	-	-	-	166	166	?
Pixel pipelines	?	?	-	-	-	4?	4?	?
Max pixel output per clock	?	?	-	-	-	4	4	?
Max texels applied per clock	?	?	-	-	-	4	4	?
Max pixel depth (bits)	?	?	-	-	-	24	24	?
Max z-buffer depth (bits)	?	?	-	-	-	?	?	?

System memory details
Total RAM (MiB)	128 + 4~16GiB	256 + 16~32GiB	0.288	4 + 0.256	16 + 0.256	32	64	? + 16GiB
- type	DDR-SDRAM + FLASH	DDR-SDRAM + FLASH	?	DRAM + FLASH	DRAM + FLASH	DRAM	DRAM	? + FLASH
- bandwidth (GB/sec)	?	?	?	?	?	2.6	2.6	?
Dedicated video RAM (MiB)	-	-	0.098	0.67 + 0.512 ¹⁵	0.67 + 0.512 ¹⁵	2	2	?
- type	-	-	?	?	?	eDRAM	eDRAM	?
- frame buffer bandwidth (GB/sec)	-	-	?	?	?	10.6	10.6	?
- texture bandwidth (GB/sec)	-	-	-	-	-	10.6	10.6	?

Theoretical peak performance
Polygons per second (millions)	?	?	-	~0.06	~0.06	~35	~35	?
Pixel fill rate (Mpixels/sec)	?	?	-	30	30	664	664	?
Texel fill rate (Mtexels/sec)	?	?	-	30	30	664	664	?

Notes

1 - The transistor count includes additional embedded devices such as audio and I/O processors.

2 - Tile-based rendering graphics chip, thus depth values are always at this level. Value is FP, not integer.

3 - The Xbox 360 has a single CPU that contains 3 PowerPC-like cores that can each handle two threads.

4 - The frame buffer memory is not on the same die as the Xenos chip; both dies are on the same module. The eDRAM also contains the ROP circuitry.

5 - GPU to eDRAM circuitry is 30+GB/sec; eDRAM ROPs to DRAM bandwidth is 25 GB/sec.

6 - 232M for GPU die, 105M for eDRAM die.

7 - The Saturn consists of multiple processors, each of which have specific tasks. Two SH2s are used for main processing, along with two VDPs, and several DSPs.

8 - The main memory could be expanded by a further 4MiB to 8 in total.

9 - The PPE unit of the Cell has 64KiB of L1 cache and 512KiB of L2 cache; each SPE has 256KiB non-cache local memory.

10 - This value refers to the FlexIO interface; other bus values are lower.

11 - The EE chip contains three small, L1-like, caches: 16KiB instruction, 8KiB data, 16KiB scratchpad.

12 - The pixel output rate is for zero textures applied; with 1 texture, the rate is 8 pixels per clock; 2 textures = 4 pixels per clock and so on.

13 - First revisions (Xenon - no HDMI / Zephyr - HDMI support) of the 360 has 90nm CPU, GPU and eDRAM. 2nd versions (Falcon - HDMI support / Opus - no HDMI) has 65nm CPU, 80nm GPU and eDRAM. 3rd version (Jasper) has 65nm CPU and GPU and 80nm eDRAM.

14 - Jasper versions have an additional 256MB of flash memory, used for storing downloads and game saves

15 - 656kiB of RAM for frame buffers, 512kiB of RAM for texture buffers

PlayStation 2 Process Scales

At launch, the EE and GS were both constructed at 250 nm; over the years, Sony has used smaller sizes to improve costs. Currently, both the EE and GS reside in the same 90nm chip - approximately 6 times smaller, in surface area, than the original chips combined

Transform Rate (TR)

The max polygons per second values labelled with a TR tag refer to the maximum rate at which vertices can be transformed (moved, rotated, scaled, etc). The actual polygon throughput to the rasterizer will be significantly lower than this. Values without this tag are given without any knowledge of what conditions the rate refers to.

Thanks & Additional Credits

A huge amount of information has been kindly supplied by the regular forum visitors to Beyond3D.com - apologies are freely given to those who have aided in some way but not given direct credit, but specific thanks go toLazy8s, ERP, PeterT, Zeross, Urian, Murakami, Hupfinsgack, Fafalada, Swaaye, Panajev2001a. Additional thanks go to Red Dog from the Futuremark discussion board.