While this is totally possible, I find it surprising that Nintendo would jump to Nvidia for the GPU on a new DS. If I remember correctly, both the Game Cube and the Wii use ATi (AMD) chips.
Either way, this sounds like good news to me. The Ion platform seems to be relatively beastly and it seems Nvidia could use the break after this current turf war with Intel.
Wii uses Gamecube's chip... Console makers don't usually have much brand loyalty. Graphics: Xbox: nVidia. 360: ATI Can't seem to find info on PSs or N64.
Nintendo originally went to SGI for 3D hardware in the N64. The people behind that hardware later spun-off their own company called ArtX that developed the GameCube graphics. ATI then acquired ArtX.
PS3 uses an off the shelf 7800 nvidia chip, they pulled the pin on the cell based chip because it doesn't like the current method of graphics rendering and is more suited to number crunching. MS went to ATI because nvidia screwed them over. they didn't want to because due to backwards compatibility, they are still paying nvidia as well.
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While this is totally possible, I find it surprising that Nintendo would jump to Nvidia for the GPU on a new DS. If I remember correctly, both the Game Cube and the Wii use ATi (AMD) chips.
Either way, this sounds like good news to me. The Ion platform seems to be relatively beastly and it seems Nvidia could use the break after this current turf war with Intel.
Competition FTW!
Wii uses Gamecube's chip...
Console makers don't usually have much brand loyalty.
Graphics:
Xbox: nVidia. 360: ATI
Can't seem to find info on PSs or N64.
The Wii has an ati logo on it.
True, the Wii uses an ATi chip, but the original Xbox used a nVIDIA chip and the 360 uses an ATi one.
The PS1 and PS2 both use a custom in-house design. N64's graphics hardware was designed by SGI.
@PCIV, the Wii's GPU is about 50% faster than Gamecube's. Not the same chip.
Nintendo originally went to SGI for 3D hardware in the N64. The people behind that hardware later spun-off their own company called ArtX that developed the GameCube graphics. ATI then acquired ArtX.
Sony uses nVidia Graphics. A 7900GT spin off
PS3 uses an off the shelf 7800 nvidia chip, they pulled the pin on the cell based chip because it doesn't like the current method of graphics rendering and is more suited to number crunching. MS went to ATI because nvidia screwed them over. they didn't want to because due to backwards compatibility, they are still paying nvidia as well.
"PS3 uses an off the shelf 7800 nvidia chip,"
No it doesn't. This has been denied over and over again.
"PS3 uses an off the shelf 7800 nvidia chip"
The RSX is a custom 7800GT not off the shelf.