Game Cube Specs





MPU("Microprocessor Unit")*  Custom IBM Power PC "Gekko"



Manufacturing Process     0.18 micron IBM Copper Wire Technology



Clock Frequency           485 MHz



CPU Capacity             1125 Dmips (Dhrystone 2.1)



Internal Data Precision  32-bit Integer & 64-bit Floating-point



External Bus             1.3GB/second peak bandwidth (32-bit address space, 

64-bit data bus 162 MHz clock)



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

(2 way)



System LSI               Custom ATI/Nintendo "Flipper"



Manufacturing Process    0.18 micron NEC Embedded DRAM Process



Clock Frequency          162 MHz



Embedded Frame Buffer    Approx. 2MB Sustainable Latency : 6.2ns (1T-SRAM)



Embedded Texture Cache   Approx. 1MB Sustainable Latency : 6.2ns (1T-SRAM)



Texture Read Bandwidth   10.4GB/second (Peak)



Main Memory Bandwidth    2.6GB/second (Peak)



Pixel Depth              24-bit Color, 24-bit Z Buffer



Image Processing Functions  Fog, Subpixel Anti-aliasing,

8 Hardware Lights, Alpha Blending,

Virtual Texture Design, Multi-texturing,

Bump Mapping, Environment Mapping,

MIP Mapping, Bilinear Filtering,

Trilinear Filtering, Anisotropic Filtering,

Real-time Hardware Texture Decompression 

(S3TC),

Real-time Decompression of Display List,

HW 3-line Deflickering filter







The following sound related functions are all incorporated into the System 

LSI



Sound Processor     custom Macronix 16-bit DSP



Instruction Memory  8KB RAM + 8KB ROM



Data Memory         8KB RAM + 4KB ROM



Clock Frequency      81 MHz



Performance          64 simultaneous channels, ADPCM encoding



Sampling Frequency   48KHz



System Floating-point Arithmetic Capability  10.5 GFLOPS (Peak) (MPU, 

Geometry Engine, HW Lighting Total)



Real-world polygon  6 million to 12 million polygons/second (Peak) (Assuming 

actual game conditions with complex models, fully textured, fully lit, etc.)



System Memory       40MB



Main Memory        24 MB MoSys 1T-SRAM, Approximately 10ns Sustainable 

Latency



A-Memory           16MB (81MHz DRAM)



Disc Drive         CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) System



Average Access Time  128ms



Data Transfer Speed  16Mbps to 25Mbps



Media  3 inch NINTENDO GAMECUBE Disc based on Matsushita's

Optical Disc Technology, Approx. 1.5GB Capacity



Input/Output

Controller Port x4

Memory Card 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 3.25A



Main Unit Dimensions  4.3"(H) x 5.9"(W) x 6.3"(D)