Yeah, I was assuming that the PICA200 was not at the default clockspeed. If it is indeed, there's still the chance of them restoring it to the default speed. I wouldn't be surprised if they did that to also save the battery life of the 3DS. But we know barely anything about the GPU so I suppose this is all rather pointless.
Uhm... The PSP was underclocked stock to save battery life, the only difference later firmwares made was returning the chip to its original values. If the PICA inside the 3DS runs at full speed, it's highly unlikely that they will magically overclock it. And since we don't know the clock speed of the PICA in the 3DS...
You see what I'm getting at.
I'd assume that since it's a GPU and it's really only used when generating 3D graphics (and could actually be ignored if they're not all that complex) then it probably has fluid stepping and simply changes its clockspeed according to demand, much like smarphone chips do. That'd nullify the need of tinkering with it completely.Yeah, I was assuming that the PICA200 was not at the default clockspeed. If it is indeed, there's still the chance of them restoring it to the default speed. I wouldn't be surprised if they did that to also save the battery life of the 3DS. But we know barely anything about the GPU so I suppose this is all rather pointless.
Uhm... The PSP was underclocked stock to save battery life, the only difference later firmwares made was returning the chip to its original values. If the PICA inside the 3DS runs at full speed, it's highly unlikely that they will magically overclock it. And since we don't know the clock speed of the PICA in the 3DS...
You see what I'm getting at.
Similar, they are not. PSP games are plagued with dithering, no AA and low poly models (good for its time but not now). It's essentially a PS1.5 while the 3DS is a Gamecube+.
Crysis on the consoles is shit (it drops to 12FPS). Better than a PC with same specs? What's your point exactly?
a ps 1.5? WUT?
The PSP is most definitely not on par with the PS2 (most of your images are bullshots).a ps 1.5? WUT?
Yay comparing time!
The psp is as on par with the ps2, as the 3ds is on par with Gamecube.Ps2
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You do know the PSP's resolution is 480x272, right?
Since you seem to want one more example of the 3DS's superiority, look at Tri G vs. Freedom Unite. There's a clear difference between the two.
I was about to say something like that. It's not fair to compare images between the 3DS and GameCube just based on the visual "jaggies" of the graphics when they have different resolutions
Bluetooth is wireless, IR is wireless, as well as NFC.
It's the same as wireless used in Wi-fi spots.
I dont think there is a specific name(not sure about this) and like rodrigo said other might quite seem odd to some users or kids
I don't think calling it 802.11b/g/n would be very user friendly
EDIT: I think sometimes it's called "Local Wireless" too but it's not an official name
Since you seem to want one more example of the 3DS's superiority, look at Tri G vs. Freedom Unite. There's a clear difference between the two.
Monster Hunter: Tri G
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Monster Hunter: Freedom Unite
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Monster Hunter: Tri G
Monster Hunter: Freedom Unite
The differences go beyond simply visuals too. It has performance much better than the PSP version. It runs at 60FPS with antialiasing, HDR lighting and proper shadows.
If the 3DS truly isn't as powerful as the Gamecube, explain Tri G. How does it run a Wii game in 3D (rendered twice) at 60FPS with anti-aliasing? Witchcraft?
Over at Neogaf, some member did the math and got the fillrate and geometry capability of the 3DS GPU.
Come on guys! Just do some maths.
Our best guess is that the 3DS has a PICA200 running at 268MHz. This comes from the homebrew scene, so take it as you will.
It has two ARM11 CPUs each running at the same speed - 268MHz.
6MB of VRAM. 128MB of FCRAM.
Taken from the PICA200 wikipedia page:
100MHz is the bottom here. 268MHz / 100MHz = 2.68. That is our multiplier.
400 Mpixels/s * 2.68 = 1072 Mpixels/s.
40M Triangles/s * 2.68 = 107.2M Triangles/s.
Gamecube performance (from the Wikipedia. If you have a better source, share it):
648 Mpixels/s.
20M Triangles/s.
According to this data, the fillrate of the 3DS GPU is almost double, and the geometry capability is 5 times greater. This is all based on Wikipedia data though, so take it as you will.
GCN had 43MB of RAM.
24MB of it was system RAM.
3MB of it was VRAM.
16MB was used for the optical drive and other functions.
3DS has about 5x more system RAM, and twice as much VRAM.
Can't find much about ARM11 CPUs, so I'll end here.
With almost double the fillrate and a much greater geometry capability, I don't know how you could argue that it's less powerful. The only bit that might make its parity/superiority to the Gamecube questionable is the CPU.
And to address your comparisons,
Nice job finding super-compressed pics at an improper resolution to represent each 3DS game. The PSP's resolution is 480x272, the 3DS's is 400x240 and the Gamecube's is 640x480. Remember that now.
Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance does not look as blurry as that. In fact, it looks largely similar to the PSP version (SE must have reused the same engine).
Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance
Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep
It's hard to compare MK7 to Double Dash. Best way is to use the remade tracks.
3DS is more powerful than the PSP and in some aspects more powerful than the Gamecube.
Once again, those screenshots are flawed. Monster Hunter 4 is still early in development and the Mario Kart 7 screenshot is from E3 2010.If you want exact sized screenshots the look at those:
Mario Kart 7:
Mario Kart Double Dash:
Monster Hunter 4(3DS)
Monster Hunter Freedom United(PSP)
Needless to say Gamecube's Mario Kart look much better
I never said 3DS was less powerful than PSP.
It's indeed more powerful, but not that much, that's why I say they have similar graphics.
Although 3DS is more powerful in some specs than Gamecube,
it's games looks worse than in GC.
You're right with this but it isn't 320x240 (400x240 for top-screen). It actually renders at 800x240 because of 3D (1.6x more pixels for the Gamecube).
