Nintendo 3DS Specs Revealed?

By Jorge Ba-oh 22.09.2010 15

Nintendo 3DS Specs Revealed? on Nintendo gaming news, videos and discussion

An anonymous source who is said to be familiar with Nintendo's upcoming handheld, the 3DS, has revealed its rather impressive specs.

According to the source speaking to IGN, the new hardware will be significantly meatier than its predecessors, and from what we've seen and played this is certainly true.

Unconfirmed 3DS Specification:

  • CPU: 2x ARM11 266MHz processors
  • Graphics: PICA200 133MHz by DMP
  • Memory/RAM: 64MB
  • Video Memory/RAM: 4MB
  • Storage: 1.5GB onboard Flash memory
    • If true it surpasses the regular DS by a fair bit, given the console has two processors each at 67 MHz and 33 MHz, with far less RAM at 4MB. Video memory on the DS is around 650kb.

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    Squidboy is offline. Squidboy 22.09.2010#1

    I hope the new handheld undergoes a firmware driven OC during it's life, just like the PSP has.


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    RudyC3 is offline. RudyC3 22.09.2010#2

    It's also interesting to note that it's the first Nintendo handheld to host a dedicated graphic chipset, whereas in the past the graphics would all be calculated by the CPU (the 67MHz one in the original DS).

    So just looking at raw specs doesn't give a clear indication of what the handheld is capable in the graphics department if you're trying to compare it to the previous ones made by Nintendo.

    I wouldn't even try to compare it to the PSP just looking at these figures.

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    wolvesgod2x is offline. wolvesgod2x 22.09.2010#3

    damn 133mhz, that's a lot... isn't it?

     
    Squidboy is offline. Squidboy 22.09.2010#4

    wolvesgod2x said:
    damn 133mhz, that's a lot... isn't it?

    Not by today's standards. The fact is the very same chip can perform at 200MHz comfortably, but for whatever reason Nintendo are capping it well below.

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    PMD is offline. PMD 22.09.2010#5

    The iPhone 3GS has an 833 MHz processor and 256 MB of RAM, just to give a comparison. However, those are just numbers and I think anyone who's actually played the 3DS will agree that it is more than capable, graphically. Let's not forget that this is going to be a Nintendo portable, which means a 10-15 hour battery life and heatless, silent operation.

     
    EdEN is offline. EdEN 22.09.2010#6

    Well, if those are the specs then... DAMN!

    As for the 3GS comment, those are specs for a multipurpose phone and these are for a dedicated handheld with a apecial GPU and CPU and thus are optimized.

    ( Edited 22.09.2010 17:13 by EdEN )

     
    Satoshi is offline. Satoshi 22.09.2010#7

    Squidboy said:Not by today's standards. The fact is the very same chip can perform at 200MHz comfortably, but for whatever reason Nintendo are capping it well below.
    If they've underclocked it I'd love to see a feature that allows for temporary overclocking during those really hectic scenes, to avoid any slowdown....but I very much doubt Nintendo would ever do that.


    And compared to recent smart phones these specs seem tiny, but I guess it doesn't have to run an OS...I guess we'll just have to wait and see what it's capable of.

    ( Edited 22.09.2010 17:18 by Simon_ )

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    Jimmy2000 is offline. Jimmy2000 23.09.2010#8

    Yeah this thing dosn't have to run an OS and multitask to it's perfectly fine.

    Kind of like how your Xbox360/PS3's can look really good yet have a "feeble" (by PC standerds) 512MB ram...

    ( Edited 22.09.2010 19:56 by Jimmy2000 )

     
    darkflame (guest) 23.09.2010#9

    These stats are meaningless really. The functions on the chips and especially the gpu massively change the capabilities they can do any given cycle, thus the number of cycles per second isn't directly comparable to anything by a similar chip.

    Squidboy said:
    wolvesgod2x said:
    damn 133mhz, that's a lot... isn't it?

    Not by today's standards. The fact is the very same chip can perform at 200MHz comfortably, but for whatever reason Nintendo are capping it well below.

    Battery life and temperate are probably the main reasons.

    wolvesgod2x is offline. wolvesgod2x 23.09.2010#10

    Squidboy said:

    but for whatever reason Nintendo are capping it well below.

    -shrugs- maybe, it's for (like someone said) battery life, and even maybe console life (because if you over-clock something, can't you lower the chip life span).

    But I was thinking, mostly about what it will be used for, such as watching videos, or playing games.

    also since the product, is fairly small, period, I don't think it will need a lot of ram, to transfer data over it's small area. I will like to see what they do, with Pokemon, on it, especially since Gene V looks, the way it does, now.

     
    Parkrer is offline. Parkrer 23.09.2010#11

    lol people believe ign lol

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    Darkflame is offline. Darkflame 23.09.2010#12

    True. IGN is amateur-hour these days.
    Look at there news updates and its filled with such generic things as "Trailer 2" without explanation for what it is. Other times there news is spammed with every single mario galaxay 2 video they had....all posted as separate news items.
    And thats not even getting to the "real" spam problem on the boards/comments.

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    Stulaw is offline. Stulaw 24.09.2010#13

    I can't believe that people believe these as facts really.

    I was reading the comments on Ign and none of the people seem to have a clue what they're talking about, one of them thought the PSP had a dual core Cpu as well as a Gpu lol.

    I think those specs will probably be higher, but the Dual ARM11 Cpu, as well as a Gpu should outdo the PSP.

     
    SirLink is offline. SirLink 24.09.2010#14

    Stulaw said:
    I can't believe that people believe these as facts really.

    I was reading the comments on Ign and none of the people seem to have a clue what they're talking about, one of them thought the PSP had a dual core Cpu as well as a Gpu lol.

    I think those specs will probably be higher, but the Dual ARM11 Cpu, as well as a Gpu should outdo the PSP.

    Yea, it's ridiculous how many TOTALLY clueless people are on IGN. Heck, when I quoted some posts to show my friend he thought I made that up before I sent him the link...

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    J4K is offline. J4K 24.09.2010#15

    Stulaw said:
    I think those specs will probably be higher, but the Dual ARM11 Cpu, as well as a Gpu should outdo the PSP.

    IGN was right on the money about the Wii's specs. I'm inclined to believe them.

     

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