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lilbroex on 15 March 2012
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Chark said:
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 you'd think with more RAM the 3DS could outdo the Wii in textures if it needed to.

The RAM difference is minimal. 

3DS - 128 MB with 32 MB dedicated to OS.   96 dedicated to gaming.

Wii - 91 MB dedicated to gaming.


Isn't some of the Wii's RAM dedicated to the OS as well? I mean, you can hit home and bring up the Wiimote menu at almost any time during gameplay.


I thought the Wii's OS features were handled by the arm7(9?) core?


It has dual ARM11's as processors, so no on the 9 or 7, you are thinking the DS.  The processor alone can't run the OS so yes a little RAM needs to be involved to make it work.


I'm not talking about the 3DS. I'm talking about the Wii. It has 3 processors. one of them is an 200 Mhz ARM processor with a small cache of ram I believe. Its been nicknamed starlet. I believe it is what handles most of the OS and security features as well as Wiiconnect24.