The GameCube system is built for speed, ease of use to developers and style. Nintendo put all it had with the newest technolgy to create this machine. Here is a list of the Tech Specs.

 

MPU (Microprocessor Unit): IBM PowerPC "Gekko"

Manufacturing process: 0.18 Microns Copper Wire Technology

Clock frequency: 405mhz CPU capacity: 925 Dmips (Dhrystone 2.1)

Internal data precision: 32bit & 64bit floating point

External bus bandwidth: 1.6GB/second (peak), (32bit address, 64bit data bus 202.5mhz)

Internal cache: L1: Instruction 32KB, Data 32KB (8 way), L2: 256KB (2 way)

 

System LSI: "Flipper"

Manufacturing process: 0.18 microns NEC Embedded DRA 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: 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

The Gekko MPU integrates the PowerPC CPU into a custom game-centric chip.

 

(The following sound related functions are all incorporated into the system LSI)

Sound processor: Special 16bit DSP

Instruction memory: 8KB RAM + 8KB ROM

Data memory: 8KB RAM + 4KB ROM

Clock frequency: 101.25mhz

Minimum 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 per 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: CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) system average access time 128ns,

Data transfer speed: 16Mbpsto 25Mbps

Media: 8cm Nintendo Gamecube Disc based on Matsushita's optical disc technology – approximately 1.5GB capacity

Input: Controller port: x4, Digicard slot: x2, Analog AV output: x1, Digital AV output: x1, High-speed serial port: x2, High-speed parallel port: x1

Power supply: AC Adapter DC12V x 3.5A

Main unit dimensions: 150mm(W) x 110mm(H) x 161mm(D)