It depends on the price.
If Sony downgrades the NGP specs, will you not buy it?
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[QUOTE="PC_Otter"] Four Cortex A9 cores @ 800 MHz is a pretty hefty CPU (for a mobile device). 3DS supposedly runs a dual core ARM at 266 MHz (ARM 11?). NGP will pretty much still be multitude's more powerful on the CPU side of things.PC_Otter
That rumor about the 3DS is wrong, dead wrong. It only has on CPU inside, it doesn't have multiple cores to my knowledge. And even then you're getting it wrong. It was rumored (by IGN who said the 3DS had 64MB RAM, when it has 128MB for games and 32MB for the OS, 160MB total) that it had TWO ARM cpus at 266Mhz each, not a dual core single CPU. The DS also had two CPUs, so that would've made sense, but alas we don't know the details of the CPU.
According to ifixit.com:
Chips we've found inside the 3DS motherboard (click here for high-res version):
Nintendo 1048 0H ARM CPU (Red Box) - I suspect that Nintendo probably has the Pica200 core and ARM die(s) under the same package. 1048 OH is supposedly a form of ARM11 that can be scaled from 1 to 4 cores if desired.
Fujitsu MB82M8080-07L (Orange Box) - Probably the RAM die.
Toshiba THGBM2G3P1FBAI8 2 GB NAND Flash (Yellow Box)
Texas Instruments PAIC3010B 0AA37DW
UC CTR 041KM73 KG10
Invensense ITG-3270 MEMS Gyroscope
ST Micro 2048 33DH X1MAQ Accelerometer Model LIS331DH
There is no practical reason to have two actual ARM dies when you can have a dual core ARM instead. This is more simple to implement than two actual CPUs, and uses less power.
I'm sorry I worded what I meant to say wrong. Yes, it could be dual core. Heck, it could have 4 cores.
No, we still don't know its clock speed still to my knowledge.
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[QUOTE="darth-pyschosis"]
That rumor about the 3DS is wrong, dead wrong. It only has on CPU inside, it doesn't have multiple cores to my knowledge. And even then you're getting it wrong. It was rumored (by IGN who said the 3DS had 64MB RAM, when it has 128MB for games and 32MB for the OS, 160MB total) that it had TWO ARM cpus at 266Mhz each, not a dual core single CPU. The DS also had two CPUs, so that would've made sense, but alas we don't know the details of the CPU.
darth-pyschosis
According to ifixit.com:
Chips we've found inside the 3DS motherboard (click here for high-res version):
Nintendo 1048 0H ARM CPU (Red Box) - I suspect that Nintendo probably has the Pica200 core and ARM die(s) under the same package. 1048 OH is supposedly a form of ARM11 that can be scaled from 1 to 4 cores if desired.
Fujitsu MB82M8080-07L (Orange Box) - Probably the RAM die.
Toshiba THGBM2G3P1FBAI8 2 GB NAND Flash (Yellow Box)
Texas Instruments PAIC3010B 0AA37DW
UC CTR 041KM73 KG10
Invensense ITG-3270 MEMS Gyroscope
ST Micro 2048 33DH X1MAQ Accelerometer Model LIS331DH
There is no practical reason to have two actual ARM dies when you can have a dual core ARM instead. This is more simple to implement than two actual CPUs, and uses less power.
I'm sorry I worded what I meant to say wrong. Yes, it could be dual core. Heck, it could have 4 cores.
No, we still don't know its clock speed still to my knowledge.
The other thing I meant to say about it having dual core, or two separate CPUs, is that it wouldn't have surprised me if (before the tear downs came out) if it had two separate CPUs since the DS line all had separate CPUs clocked at different speeds.
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