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All three major consoles of the seventh generation were PowerPC based. As of 2019, no PowerPC-based game consoles are currently in production. The most recent release, Nintendo's Wii U, has since been discontinued and succeeded by the Nintendo Switch (which uses a Nvidia Tegra ARM processor). The Wii Mini, the last PowerPC-based game console to ...
IBM PowerPC 604e 200 MHz Custom PowerPC CPU from the Wii video game console The Freescale XPC855T Service Processor of a Sun Fire V20z. The first implementation of the architecture was the PowerPC 601, released in 1992, based on the RSC, implementing a hybrid of the POWER1 and PowerPC instructions. This allowed the chip to be used by IBM in ...
All three major seventh-generation game consoles contain PowerPC-based processors. Sony's PlayStation 3 console, released in November 2006, contains a Cell processor, including a 3.2 GHz PowerPC control processor and eight closely threaded DSP-like accelerator processors, seven active and one spare; Microsoft's Xbox 360 console, released in 2005, includes a 3.2 GHz custom IBM PowerPC chip with ...
PlayStation 3's Cell CPU achieves a theoretical maximum of 204.8 GFLOPS in single precision floating point operations and up to 15 GFLOPS double precision. [1] The PS3 has 256 MB ([2]) of Rambus XDR DRAM, clocked at CPU die speed. [1] The PPE has 64 KB ([3]) L1 cache and 512 KB L2 cache, while the SPEs have 2 MB local memory (256 KB per SPE ...
The PowerPC 602 was a stripped-down version of PowerPC 603, specially made for game consoles by Motorola and IBM, introduced in February 1995. [29] It has smaller L1 caches (4 KB instruction and 4 KB data), a single-precision floating-point unit [29] and a scaled back branch prediction unit. It was offered at speeds ranging from 50 to 80 MHz ...
The eighth generation of video game consoles began in 2012, and consists of four home video game consoles: the Wii U released in 2012, the PlayStation 4 family in 2013, the Xbox One family in 2013, and the Nintendo Switch family in 2017. The generation offered few signature hardware innovations. Sony and Microsoft continued to produce new ...
The list of video game consoles is split into the following articles: List of dedicated video game consoles. List of handheld game consoles. List of home video game consoles. List of video game consoles by generation. List of first generation home video game consoles. List of microconsoles. List of video game console emulators.
The Xbox 360 technical specifications describe the various components of the Xbox 360 video game console.. The console features a port on the top when vertical (left side when horizontal) to which a custom-housed hard disk drive unit can be attached in sizes of either 20, 60, 120, 250, 320, 500 GB; [1] and as of April 2015 all 2.5" SATA Hard Drives up to 2 TB, [2] [3] the user can use the ...