Full Dreamcast Specs

The Dreamcast announcement was capped by this amazing roster of technical specifications for the system. With Sega's top game designers working on this machine, we should see some killer apps to go along with the Japanese launch.

Main SpecsCPU SH4 - RISC CPU with 128-bit graphics engine (200MHz, 360 MIPS/1.4 GFLOPS)

Graphics Engine - Power VR Second-Generation (CG performance of over 3 million polygons per second)

Sound Engine - Super intelligent sound processor with 32-bit RISC CPU (64-channel ADPCM)

Main Memory - 16MB (64-megabit SD-RAM x 2)

Modem - V34 (33.6Kbps), V42 and MNP5 full support

OS - Customized Microsoft Windows CE operating system

Media - CD-ROM

CD-ROM Drive - Maximum speed 12x

Color - 16.77 million colors

CG - Bump mapping, fog, alpha-blending, MIP-mapping, trilinear filtering, anti-aliasing, environment mapping, specular effects.

Data Save - VM system (Visual Memory)

Others - Clock, etc.

Size 190mm (W) x 195mm (H) x 78mm (D)

Weight - 2kg

Visual Memory System SpecsCPU - Energy saving 8-bit

Memory - 128K byte

Display (LCD) - 48 (W) x 32 (H) dot monochrome

Size - 47mm (W) x 80mm (H) x 16mm (D)

Power - Button battery x 2, auto-off function

Sound - PWM 1-channel sound source

Weight - 45g