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A poster on IGN's Insider forums, who works for Ubisoft and has a special VIP account given to him by IGN, had the following to say:
"I'd love to talk 'in-depth' about next-gen systems too, more specifically PS3 and Revolution but, as you can imagine, we're under embargo to release any details about those systems. Also, I don't want to speak on behalf of Ubisoft as to which system is going to win until they've all launched. Last thing I need is a NOA/SCEA/MS representative calling Ubisoft saying that I was bad talking their system. All I can say is - I think 'someone' is back in the race."
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One of the two sources who gave us information on IBM's "Broadway" processor today gave us information on the "Hollywood" GPU from ATi. Details inside.
The source provided the following information under conditions of anonymity, as well as some other general Revolution statements:
- "Hollywood" is based on ATi's RV530 GPU
- The GPU has been optimised significantly (more on that below)
- The graphics are not as bad as IGN might make them sound
- The Revolution's RAM, whilst being around 128MB, is highly optimised
Here are the specs for the RV530, thanks to Anandtech:
RV530
600MHz Core Clock
1400MHz Memory Clock
512MB Maximum Memory for "XT"
256MB Maximum Memory for "Pro"
128-bit Memory
12 Pipelines
Maximum 16x32MB 1.4ns GDDR3
High Optimisation
The source described the Revolution's optimisation like this:
Although he acknowledged that Revolution will not be as powerful as 360 or PS3, he said that the optimisation level of Revolution is similar to that of the GameCube: although it did not have the highest hardware specification, it managed to churn out the best graphics in titles such as Resident Evil 4.
RAM
The RAM is 1T-SRAM, as previously reported. The source mentioned some optimisation of the RAM but did not clarify.
We remind you that this source is very trustworthy: the information that we broke exclusively on IBM's "Broadway" is now mirrored in the comments of various developers to IGN.
There is no official word from Nintendo, however. Take this as you will.
RevoGaming will keep you updated.
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Nintendo has modified the System 1 specs. They have deleted the System 2 specs as it is obviously expensive and really powerful.
System 1 Modified
CPU:
1 IBM Custom PowerPC 2.5 GHz with 256 KB L1 cache and 1 MB of L2 cache (an L3 cache is rumored). It’s Dual Threaded
13 billion dot product operations per second
Revolution GPU
ATI Custom based RN520 core. The "N" stands for Nintendo, and is because the ArtX team is with them, that is why it’s an "N".
GPU core at 600 MHz. Will support up to 2048x1268 resolution, HD support is still being decided. Will have 256 MB’s of 1T-SRAM (the RAM is much better due to some tweaking, compared to GC’s RAM. The latency and Cells are much more efficient and faster. Around 1.2 ns is the latency, on average).
32 parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines.
Polygon Performance: 500 million triangles per second theoretical, average in game would be around <100 Million/sec>
Shader Performance: ~50 billion shader operations per second
Revolution memory
512 MB of 700 MHz 1T-SRAM
Other bits and pieces
Revolution will support a PPU chip (Physical Processing Chip). There will be 32 MB’s of its own RAM, which will link to the CPU and GPU and the Controller.
There will also be a separate sound card that will support only DD 5.1 – DTS 7.1, rumors has it will have 16 MB’s, like the Cube DSP
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"Hollywood" 65nm Custom ATI R520
24 "Pipelines"
32 Texture Units
96 Arithmetic Logic Units (ALU)
192 Shader Operations per Cycle
700MHz Core
134.4 Billion Shader Operations per Second (at 700MHz)
256-bit 512MB 1.8GHz GDDR3 Memory
57.6 GB/sec Bandwidth (at 1.8GHz)
300-350 Million Transistors
65nm Manufacturing
Shader Model 3.0
ATI HyperMemory
ATI Multi Rendering Technology (SLI)
Performance: Over 3x Radeon X800 XT (for single R520)
"Broadway" Custom 65nm PowerPC 970MP 128bit
Dual core processor @ 3GHz
1GHz EI bus
128MB 1S-TRAM
Each core has 1MB L2 cache (2MB total)
VMX instruction set
Altivec-compatible Vector/SIMD units -- one on each core.
IBM's CMOS SOI10K with Silicon on Insulator
13.225mm x 11.629mm die
1MB L2 cache
IBM's PowerTune technology
a programmable ABIST diagnostic
191 GFLOPs(just CPU)
Release Date: August 2006
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Almeda: “Why I know it's coming...? Let's just say that THREE THINGS are planned for that day that will be HUGE for Nintendo. 2 we know... 1 we speculate.”
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Almeda: “Why I know it's coming...? Let's just say that THREE THINGS are planned for that day that will be HUGE for Nintendo. 2 we know... 1 we speculate.”
DS109: "are you allowed to disclose those 2 things?"
Almeda: "yes, Mario 20th Anniversary, GB Micro launch, All on 9-13-05 in japan."
Almeda: "9-13-05 on the U.S.A., on the other hands is 9-14-05 in japan.
Almeda: "Tuesday night... that's all I'll say."
Almeda: "I'll spread the word... because I know more insider details that I can't talk about right now, but if you want more... pay attention to AMN on Tuesday night... possibly other sites will follow too."
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Simplified Explanation
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What this means is that, there are 2 pieces of the console hardware.
The main console (system 54) does this:
Sends audio/video signals to the television set, meaning it applies what "system 50" processes to the audio. Basically it puts the calculations into the formula in the correct order.
And the second, unshown hardware, (system 50) does this:
Processes the digital models, displays some/all of the world from [viewpoint x], can "interactively change the viewpoint in response to real time inputs from handeld controllers 52a, 52b, or other input devices. This lets the player "see the world through the eyes of someone within or outside of the world". It also can display 2-d images, but is primarily used to "create very realistic and exciting game play" or other graphical interactions.
And the input devices (aka: controllers)
Will not always take this example. They can take "a variety of forms".
````` The REALLY interesting thing is that, if this is true, Nintendo hasn't even shown us the REAL "revolution" console yet. What they have shown us (the black box) is simply a communication device between the ACTUAL console (the part that does the calculations), the player (via the controller), and the television screen. We haven't seen ANYTHING yet. Literally.
The clues are adding up. Think of it what you wish. But, interestingly enough, it all sounds a lot like what this guy wrote:
http://revolutionspecs.blogspot.com/
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So I work at an EB Games in Sammamish, WA. which is about 5 minutes away from Redmond, WA. (HEADQUARTERS of Nintendo of America) Today we closed at 6:00 p.m. but at about 5:50 a guy came in wearing an NAO badge on his hip.
When asked about Nintendo he said that he works in the "Treehouse". (Which, as he explained is an area of Nintendo that works on ideas, development, and marketing.)
I jumped to the point and asked him about the controller... here was his response:
mischief "I've seen the Revolution Controller, and it's something that will absolutely set Nintendo ahead this next console race. It truly is something so revolutionary you will wonder how you played games without it before. I promise you that when the details are released you won't even have a doubt as to which console you will want to play first." The next may not be word for word but it's the main points he stated:
-Certain games: I.E. - SPLINTER CELL are working on a totally different, yet more stealth control schemes just for the REVO.
-Many companies are jumping on board due to cheap development costs and high results
-NO demo's in store, too "sensitive" and "Not enough space" to properly use the controller
-The "BIG THREE" (Mario, Metroid, Zelda) will be seen, played, and heard as you have never imagined before.
-Nintendo has the info ready to be released, and they WANT to tell us, but are so worried that other companies (Microsoft and Sony) will steal the idea, they will make the customers and gamers wait until they see final plans for PS3 and launch (Or finished Hardware) of the 360.
That's really all I remember.
Believe it, and you can doubt all you want but don't shoot the messenger.
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Project N-Game via etj for Nintendo of America SeriousGamer007 entity of N-Game provided by ................. Nintendo Believe Campaign search engine optimization etrafficjams
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OK,
Heres what I've got.
If you go to the real press.nintendo.com... you will see it requires a UserName and Password to enter.
Now in the URL line type press.nintendo.com/object?id=7972 That is the URL that appeared in the screen grab in question.
It says... "Object 7972 is not displayable."
Now change that number at the end into 7973.
It says the same thing right?
Now change that number into something higher or random.
It says... "Object ID specified does not or no longer exists."
You see, that doucument referred to in the picture in question did/does exist, as well as another one 1 digit higher.
So, thoese two doucuments do exist. A random number is most likely to come up empty.
This means that either the guy got lucky to know the number of a doucument, or he really did see a document with that number.
Heres a possiblity, he wasn't a member to the press section, just a small site/news publication who likes to check that page to get the public information that doesn't require a password.
However, maybe he stumbled upon the document posted in the public area my mistake. Nintendo, quickly fixed this error and moved it to the members section, hence the reason "Object 7972 is not displayable" rather than "Object ID specified does not or no longer exists."
Well thats what I've got right now. Ain't nothing like some fun spectulation at 6:30 in the A.M.
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If Matt is right about the relative announcement date, I'm going to guess that we might see something at Penny Arcade Expo. It runs this Fri-Sun, Nintendo is attending, and there is a "Secret Event" on the schedule.
