Technical Specifications for the 3DO M2 Accelerator:

• CPU : o PowerPC 602 @ 66Mhz
  - 64 kbits total Instruction/Data caches (32k/32k)
  - built in MMU
  - SPECint92 of 40
  - Single precision FPU (133 Mflops)
  - Price approx. $30US in volume.
• Co-Processing:
  - Graphics ASIC
  - 10 custom co-processors for graphics/audio
• Graphics:
  - Over 1,000,000 polygons/sec peak throughput
  - 700,000 polygons/sec sustained throughput with effects
  (including texture mapping, light sourcing, and MIP mapping)
  - 100 million pixels/second throughput
  - Destination-based texture mapping
  - RLE compression/decompression
  - Light sourcing
  - Linear, bi-linear, tri-linear, and point sampled filtering
  - MIP mapping
  - Pixel-level gouraud shading and Alpha channel pixel-averaging/anti-aliasing
  - 3-D perspective correction
  - Hardware Z-Buffering
  - MPEG-1 video decompression
• Resolution:
  - 640x480 in 24bit or 16bit colour
  - 320x240 in 24bit or 16bit colour
• Memory:
  - 4 Megabytes memory (SDRAM/NVRAM) on base system
  - 64-bit bus
  - 528Mb/second bus bandwidth
  - Cache coherent memory system
  - 2 Megabytes ROM
• Sound:
  - DSP running at 66mhz, with 2k cache
  - 32 Channels with hardware decompression and interpolation
  - MPEG audio decompression
  - 3-D CD-quality sound
• Options:
  - PCMCIA slot