Nintendo GameCube

The GameCube first went on sale in Japan in September 2001, then in the US and Canada in November 2001. It was launched in Europe and Australia in May 2002.

The GameCube is very distinctive in appearance being cube shaped and brightly coloured.

Processor

• IBM "Gekko" CPU  based on PowerPC 750CXe (RISC) clocked at 485 MHz
• 1.3 GB/s bus speed

Graphics

• ArtX/Nintendo "Flipper" clocked at 162 MHz
• 2 MB of embedded frame buffer memory
• 1 MB of texture cache memory
• 24 bit colour

Audio

• Custom Macronics DSP running at 81 MHz
• 48 KHz sampling
• Dolby Digital Pro Logic II

System Memory

• Main memory: Approx. 24 MB of 1T-SRAM running at 324 MHz
• Secondary memory: Approx. 16 MB of DRAM running at 81 Mhz
  

The Nintendo GameCube