Nintendo Wii Specs: CPU/GPU

Nintendo has announced that IBM has finished developing the CPU, codenamed “Broadway”. IBM had previously developed the processor for Nintendo’s current system, the GameCube. Nintendo has also announced that Canadian graphics card maker ATI Technologies is developing the GPU, codenamed “Hollywood”, for Wii. In an interview ATI’s Public Relations Manager for Consumer Products, John Swinimer, confirmed that “Hollywood” has not been developed from PC architecture but developed specifically for the Wii ‘from the ground up’.

They developed the Wii hardware for 5 years I doubt they would put in some outdated hardware from 6 years ago in their new console.
There are some technologies out in 2006 that can be implemented in Wii at a nice price point without it being abosolute trash performance wise.

PowerPC 970FX @3Ghz SOI 55W
PPE physics acceleration(PPU confirmed at E3 by developer comments)
Konami: Yes, the structure is very similar to GameCube, but you already knew that. The development was not that difficult, as the Wii system has built in physics simulation. That helped the process

http://revolution.ign.com/articles/708/708155p1.html

GPU-fully custom so ???? still a mystery

the whole over clocked gamecube oh PLEASEEE thats typical of ign they see nintendo on to something so they become sony zealots and try to piss on nintendos fire,,, ITS PATHETIC hollywood is custom ..hardware based physics hinted at ,all new broadway gamecentric cpu dedicated gamecentric dsp (sound processor) high speed gamecentric media drive NOT SLOW DVD NOT SLOW BLURAY…so expect mind mending perforance out of that tiny box and levels of gameplay and interaction thats simply imposable on 360/ps3

That doesnt tell much…

It’s fuuny how every one says it’s an over clocked when it’s actualy more like a new release of a PC graphics card with new features added. I mean where are the Hardware guys now? We got a whole bunch of simple minded gamers posting now. I guess we can thank sony for that. Really the Over clocked statemnet is more of a fact for the xbox 360 and ps3. Isn’t that the main reason most people are gonna buy one…LOL 3 Ghz and HD.

Really if you need power then your just pissing your self off buying a console… as directx 10 will crush the “HD” revolution for consoles.

Also people talk about the valus of HD and the new dvd formats…LOL please… Tell me why do you really need a new dvd player? Is there a problem with your current dvd player? and really do you really think it’s gonna cost sony 400-1000 doaller to make a blue ray player? Also too I wonder how long it is before the news of warner bros making a laser that reads both HD and blue ray…ouch… If true would make the blue ray in the ps3 a tax rather than a need… becuase it will not play other HD dvds.

Broadway is Wii’s CPU.

PowerPC 750cxe FX/GX @ 729 MHz
Front Side Bus: 243 MHz, 64 bits @ 1.944 GB’s/sec
256 KB L1 instruction cache
256 KB L1 data cache (can set up 16-kilobyte data scratch pad).
This leads to 512 KB L1 Cache total

Normal Broadway interface:
Bus Interface Unit to System Bus = 64 bit * 243 MHz = 1.944 GB/s
Bus Interface Unit from chip = 17 GB/s
L2 Data cache to fill buffer 64 bit * 729 MHz = 5.832 GB/s
L2 Instruction cache to L1 instruction cache = 32 bit * 729 MHz = 2.916 GB/s
DMA controller to fill buffer 64 bit * 729 MHz = 5.832 GB/s
Fill buffer to L1 Data cache 256 bit * 729 MHz = 23.328 GB/s
Write Gather Pipe from Load/Store Unit 64 bit * 729 MHz = 5.832 GB/s

Broadways data compression
Data compression of 4:1 average data compression:
Bus Interface Unit to System Bus 4:1 = 7.78 GB/s
Bus Interface Unit from chip 4:1 = 68 GB/s
L2 Data cache to fill buffer 4:1 = 23.328 GB/s
L2 Instruction cache to L1 instruction cache 4:1 = 11.664 GB/s
DMA controller to fill buffer 4:1 = 23.328GB/s
Fill buffer to L1 Data cache 4:1 = 93.312 GB/s.
Write Gather Pipe from Load/Store Unit 4:1 = 23.328 GB/s

THE XBOX XCPU CELERON 733MHZ HAS HALF THE BANDWIDTH OF BROADWAY WEN NOT USING COMPRESSION THE BROADWAY AT PEAK HITS 4X TO 8X THE BANDWIDTH OF XBOX 1S CPU

ITS ALSO TWICE THE TRANSISTOR COUNT RISC NOT CISC CUSTOM DESIGNED DEEP REGISTRY MEDIA 3D CHIP

BROADWAY = 2.5 X XBOX 1 CELERON EASY

GEKKO WAS LIKE A 900MHZ INTEL AT 485MHZ BROADWAY IS 50% FASTER IN CLOCK SPEEDS OF CPU AND BUS BUT ALSO SHRUNK AND UPGRADED AND LATEST SILICON ON INSULATOR TECH

ITS A XBOX 1 KILLER

FSB XBOX 1 133MHZ = 1GB BANDWIDTH

FSB WII 243MHZ PLUS 4TO1 COMPRESSION =7.7GB BANDWIDTH

ok guys u can’t compare a wii to a xbox360 or a ps3 its like me comparing my pc to ur consoles ( bare in mind my pc will smash ur consoles into tiny little bits ). the wii was not designed to compete with M$ or sony nintendo are just out of that game now but the wii was designed for good family fun and interaction which a pc, xbox or playstaion can not achieve in the same way. i own a wii which i play on with my daughter, wife ,brothers and friends all togther and i have more fun on that with is less quality gfx than i do playing COD4 or COD world at war on my pc. i played fifa online with the wii against some person only god knows where and the gameplay onlin was as if i was playing v the cpu talk about smooth i was impressed with the wii online gameplay so to conclude the wii is a good FAMILY console for the family to play together and have fun with but if ur a solo gamer then a wii maybe not as much fun to play on.