gpu

Its Flipper!

Quote from Gamecube dossier :
"The GameCube''s graphics processing unit (GPU) was developed by ArtX and will be produced by NEC. ArtX helped design the Nintendo 64 GPU and was recently bought by ATI, giving the longtime PC video card developer a foothold in the console market. Called Flipper, GameCube''s 162MHz GPU includes 3.1MB of embedded MoSys 1T-SRAM for Z-buffers, frame buffers, and texture cache. The embedded memory will let developers keep information close to the graphics chip to decrease latency. Nintendo conservatively estimated the GameCube''s polygonal output to be 6 to 12 million polygons per second in complete game environments, but developer leaks have suggested that the real number is more than 20 million polygons per second. The launch games shown at E3 were already eclipsing Nintendo''s conservative figures. Displaying textures should be the GameCube''s most potent asset. GameCube will utilize S3''s 6-to-1 texture compression, which will let texture data be shrunk to one-sixth its original size, with no appreciable hit on the hardware. In addition to the S3 texture compression, the GameCube will be able to display eight simultaneous textures per object, compared with the Xbox''s ability to display just four in hardware."

For more techie specs: Nintendo''s GameCube Technical Overview

And it took me 1 search on google .



I have spoken.

i was just wondering is it better than the x box gpu.

Xbox: Custom nVidia graphics chip "X Chip", NV2A
GC : Custom ATI/Nintendo "Flipper"

XBox vs GameCube - With tables and comparison.

Grand total of 2 googles.