Rumor: Detailed Wii Specs
July 31st, 2006 by Darren Stevens in GameCube, Hardware, Rumor, Technology, Wii
Every now and then, a site posts a Wii secret revealed exclusively to them by a secret Nintendo insider, or someone that knows someone that knows a Nintendo hardware engineer. This time, MaxConsole posts a detailed list of Wii’s hardware, including info on the CPU, GPU, RAM etc. Some of these specs were revealed by IGN a few months ago, but not in detail as here;
- Nintendo Wii’s ‘Broadway’ CPU operates at 729MHZ with a maximum bandwidth of 1.9gbyte/sec.
- Nintendo Wii’s ‘Hollywood’ GPU is clocked at 243MHZ, the internal memory of it includes 3mb of embedded graphics memory and 24 MB of high speed main memory.
- 64megabytes of GDDR3 (MEM2) as the external main memory. Just like the internal memory, it can be accessed from the CPU and GPU with a maximum bandwidth of 4gbytes/sec and can also store programs in the MEM2.
- The GPU of the Wii is identical to the GameCube’s but it is on average 1.5X faster.
Full list of specs can be found here. We don’t have to remind you that none of it is official, right?
Tags: GameCube, Hardware, Rumor, Technology, Wii
August 12th, 2006 at 10:53 pm
wrong, it uses something like 1S-tram
September 5th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
wrong totally wrong its 1t sram-r the latest generation 1t sram embedded right on the gpu directly linked to memory controllers low latency high bandwidths likly ram specs
hollywood 3mb gpu catch 1t sram-r
hollywood 24mb shared 1t sram-r
sub die 64mb 1t sram-r shared
16mb access ram edram
512mb flash drive
bandwidth example
360 hits 32gb bandwidth from a 10mb sub die
wii has 24mb right on the chip and 64mb on a sub die so expect great bandwidths to go with the rams lightning speed 32gb plus for 480i/p resolutions is over kill wi will kick out gresat graphics and minimum loadtimes