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Tom3k on 08 September 2013
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Kaizar said:
Tom3k said:

I see that you still live in your La-La Land of technical ignorance. 

The GPU in 3DS is called PICA200. It's not called like that because it's 200th model, but it's called like that because it's a PICA GPU clocked at 200MHz. At that frequency it gives 15,3 million polygons. Too hard for you to understand? Well use the google then  http://www.dmprof.com/english/e_products/e_pica_200/ .

The GPU in PS Vita is PowerVR SGX543MP4+ that does 140 million polygons @ 200MHz (~35/ core).

The CPU in 3DS is Dual-Core ARM11 closked at 268MHz.

The CPU in Vita is Quad-Core ARM Cortex A9 clocked at 800-1000MHz.

While everything in OP is biased and is reflecting posters opinion, the hardware specifications are NOT. They are as they are. Nintendo at time of 3DS's release used a 4 year old GPU!!! for crying out loud... The CPU is as well heavily outdated when compared to Cortex A9, and of course clocked lower.

 

 


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PICA200

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM11

 

Your CPU & GPU specs are copy & pasted from 3dsbrew.com, which is a bullcrap website.

This is the 1st time that I actually heard for 3dsbrew.com, and since Chrome can't open the site I guess I'll never know what's the fuzz about. But If you actually clicked on the link I left in my post you would have been taken to MANUFACTURER'S SITE. You know the site from the guys that ACTUALLY make PICA200 for Nintendo. There's actually a reason why I posted that link so you could go to it, download the leaflet...

But nevermind, I'll try to explain it as simple as possible, so you might actually understand. PICA is the GPU series, PICA200 is a model within PICA series. That model RUNS at max. 200MHz ACCORDING TO MANUFACTURER'S SITE. http://www.dmprof.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/leaflet_PICA200_en.pdf 

And here's the press release from DMP in 2006, which states that 3DS is USING PICA200 http://www.dmprof.com/e_news/e_press/372/ .

The nonsense that the PICA200 works at higher clock speeds comes from Nokia's pdf that you can find @ this link (go to page #64, and there you'll actually see that PICA200 isn't mentioned anywhere and on top of everything the presentation is from 2008). http://people.csail.mit.edu/kapu/EG_08/Mobile3D_EG08.pdf .

But anyway FIND ME A SINGLE PRODUCT THAT HAS PICA200 GPU CLOCKED @ 400MHz, and I'LL ADMIT THAT I'm WRONG. 

 

And the point of you linking wiki is?