CPU: Advanced RISC Machines 32-bit 12.5Mhz RISC CPU (ARM60)
Resolution: 640 pixels x 480 pixels, 16.7 million colours
Video Co-processors: 2 x Accelerated Video Co-Processors @ 25MHz producing 9-16 million REAL pixels per second (36-64 Mpix/sec
interpolated), distortion, scalion, rotating and texture mapping, ability to map rectangular bitmaps onto any arbitrary 4-point polygon, texturemap source bitmaps can be 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, or 16 bits per pixel and are RLE compressed for optimised resolution and storage space. Supports transparency, translucency, and colour-shading effects.
Sound: 16-bit Stereo Sound with 44.1KHz Sound Sampling Rate. Fully Supports Dolby™ Surround Sound.
CD-ROM Drive: 320ms access time, 32 Kbyte RAM buffer, Doublespeed 300kbps Data Transfer
DSP: Custom 16-bit Digital Signal Processor @ 25MHz specifically designed for mixing, manipulating, and synthesizing CD quality sound with the ability to decompress sound 2:1 or 4:1 on the fly, Pipelined CISC architecture, 16-bit register size, 17 separate 16-bit DMA channels to and from system memory, On chip instruction SRAM and register memory, 20-bit internal processing, Special filtering for effects.
BUS: 50 Megabytes per second
Separate BUS for video refresh updates (VRAM is dual ported)
Math Co-Processor custom designed by NTG for accelerating fixed-point matrix operations
DRAM: 2MB
VRAM: 1MB, capable of holding and executing code and data
SRAM: 32Kb battery backed up SRAM
ROM: 1MB
DMA Channels: 36
Multitasking 32-bit Operating System
Expansion ports: 1 x High-speed 68 pin x 1 AV I/O port (for FMV cartridge) + 1 x High-speed 30 pin x 1 I/O expansion port
1 Control port, with "daisy chaining" ability capable of linking up to 8 peripherals
Upgradeable