Hardware Specifications

Dreamcast Main Unit

Hitachi SuperH-4 RISC CPU

200 MHz

3 million sustained polygons/second

16 MB System RAM

NEC/VideoLogic PowerVR 2DC

100 MPixel/sec true fill rate

full-screen anti-aliasing through super-sampling

DOT-3 Bump-Mapping

VQ Texture Compression

Modifier Volumes for special effects including hardware based shadows

8MB SDRAM

Yamaha Super Intelligent Sound Processor

45 MHz ARM7 core

64 simultaneous audio channels at 16-bit, 44.1 kHz

XG MIDI support

3D Environment Effects

DSP for reverb, chorus, and other musical effects

ADPCM 4:1 compression

2MB RAM

Yamaha 12X CAV GD-ROM drive

1 gigabyte of uncompressed data per disc

1.8 MB/sec transfer rate on outer ring

size of a standard 5" CD

External 56K V.90 Soft-Modem
Y2K compliant Real Time Clock
4 Game Ports (2Mbits/sec bandwidth per port)

Dreamcast Gamepad

Analog Thumbpad with 8-bit accuracy (256 different positions)

Digital Pad

4 buttons (A,B,X,Y)

2 analog index triggers

2 VMU ports

VMU - Visual Memory Unit

8-bit power saving CPU

200 "blocks" of data storage

128K Flash-ROM (does not require battery)

48x32 super-twist LCD Display

Piezoelectric speaker

Directional pad

2 buttons

Date/Time function

2 CR2032 button batteries