Nintendo 3DS graphics processor revealed
The company behind the 3DSs graphics chip reveals whats under the hood
If you hadnt heard of them before, you will have now. Digital Media Professionals have outed themselves as the provider of the graphics processor thats under the hood of the Nintendo 3DS. The chip is called the Pica200, and its a little old according to reports but still supports OpenGL ES 1.1 and can push out the 15 million polygons per second which will be needed to render the 3D graphics. Stereo 3D graphics require everything to be drawn twice, one for each eye.
So what does this mean for you and me, the game player? Well it means that the Nintendo 3DS has plenty of power for its graphics and has plenty of pretty graphic effects such as per-pixel shading, procedural textures, texture filtering and anti-aliasing. Final speeds have yet to be revealed as the chip can come at different speeds, but the results speak for themselves.
A demo of what the chip can do is below, but the 3DS might not look exactly the same obviously.
Source: NeoGAF
