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Introduction
The Dreamcast will be the most powerful console system in the American market, at least for the next year or so. Here's what makes the Dreamcast tick.
System Specs
CPU:
Hitachi SH4 CPU
200MHz clock rate
360 MIPS (millions of instructions per second)
1.4 billion floating-point operations per second
3D calculations
800+ MBytes/second bus bandwidth
Graphics:
NEC/Videologic CLX1 graphics chip (AKA PowerVR Second Generation)
3 million polygons/second peak rendering rate
Perspective-Correct Texture Mapping
Point, Bilinear, Trilinear and Anisotropic Mip-map filtering
Gouraud shading
Z-buffer
Colored light sourcing
Full scene anti-aliasing
16.7 million colors
Hardware based, fog, bump mapping, and texture compression
Shadow and light volumes
Super sampling
Memory:
16 MB main operating RAM
8 MB video RAM (VRAM)
2 MB sound RAM
128KB Flash RAM
Sound:
Yamaha AICA Sound Core
RISC CPU
DSP for real-time effects
64 sound channels
Full 3D sound support
Hardware-based audio compression
Storage Media:
GD-ROM
1 Gigabyte data storage
12X speed
Other
56K Modem (included, upgradeable)
Four controller ports
Built-in expansion ports
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