Is The Dreamcast stronger than the GameCube?

The GameCube and Xbox are both generally more powerful than the Dreamcast, but the Dreamcast has several hardware advantages.
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Was the GameCube more powerful than Dreamcast?

Similarly, although the Xbox and GameCube were considerably more powerful than the Dreamcast in most respects, Sega's console had faster Z-buffer bandwidth (it could render on-screen depth more efficiently) and its tiled rendering allowed for a higher opaque fillrate (it could draw a higher number of large opaque ...
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Was GameCube the most powerful?

Its graphics and CPU power were comparable to the original Xbox, but it was held back by a smaller storage medium. If it had used normal DVDs (and allowed mature games like San Andreas), it would probably have been in first or second-place in popularity, rather than third.
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Was Dreamcast 128 bits?

The Dreamcast and the PlayStation 2 were the last systems to use the term "128-bit" in their marketing to describe their capability. It is not easy to compare the relative "power" of the different systems.
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Did Dreamcast have better graphics?

The Sega Dreamcast was a revolutionary console released in 1998 that marked a giant leap forward for video game graphics. The system featured advanced 3D capabilities and gave games more immersive and lifelike visuals than ever before. Sadly, the console never took off and lasted less than three years.
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What was more powerful PS2 or GameCube?

And when you look at the specs, the GameCube has a CPU clock speed of 485MHZ compared to the PS2s 295MHZ, making the GameCube process things faster than the PS2 and load more stuff up, and the Gamecube's GPU has a clockspeed of 162MHZ compared to the PS2s 147MHZ. Making the Gamecube more powerful graphically.
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Why was Dreamcast so good?

It is considered ahead of its time for pioneering concepts such as online play and downloadable content. Many Dreamcast games are regarded as innovative, including Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi (1999), Shenmue (1999), Jet Set Radio (2000), and Phantasy Star Online (2000).
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How many FPS is Dreamcast?

Sega Dreamcast ran games at 60fps.
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Who won the 7th generation console war?

The FTC says that "in the United States, Microsoft won Generation 7 with the Xbox 360 pitted against the PlayStation 3," but adds that "Sony won Generation 8 with the PlayStation 4."
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Why did the GameCube do so poorly?

The GameCube used mini disks so obviously couldn't play DVDs. The Xbox could play them but needed an extra accessory to do so. Obviously it wouldn't have been such a big success without good games as well but the DVD thing really kicked it off.
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Is GameCube weaker than PS2?

The GameCube was factually more powerful than the PS2, and it's easily noticable when you compare the same game on the two systems. The GameCube version of the game usually would look sharper, clearer than the PS2 versions of the games.
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What is the rarest game on GameCube?

The Rarest GameCube Games (& How Much They're Worth)
  1. 1 Sonic Heroes & Super Monkey Ball Duo Pack ($4,350)
  2. 2 Pokemon Box Ruby & Sapphire ($2,027) ...
  3. 3 Disney Sports Basketball ($1,050) ...
  4. 4 Super Monkey Ball 2 Pack ($926) ...
  5. 5 Metroid Prime & Zelda: The Wind Waker Combo ($750) ...
  6. 6 Sonic Adventure 2 Pack ($720) ...
  7. 7 Gotcha Force ($622) ...
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Is Wii powerful than GameCube?

Is the Wii a true successor to the GameCube? Of course! The Wii far outsold the 'cube despite being only about 1.5 times as powerful. The architecture both systems were built on is very similar, so on a technological level, the Wii is basically a more powerful Gamecube.
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What is the longest GameCube game to beat?

1 Animal Crossing (205h 59m)

The only game that sits below this entry is New Horizons. The GameCube original, with all of the weirdness fans adore, is the longest at an average of 205 hours and 59 minutes. Animal Crossing is a game that players take a day at a time.
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How much RAM did the GameCube have?

I was then reading about GCN and its graphic chip has 3MB of eDRAM (with less bandwidt than PS2), 2MB for Frame/z buffer and 1MB for texture cache. To store textures it has a 24MB external memory with only 2.6GB/s bandwidth.
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Was Sega Dreamcast 64 bit?

Christened the "Product to Watch" in 1999 by Business Week and the Los Angeles Times, Dreamcast features an ad vanced 128-bit architecture that Sega says gives it 15 times the power of the Sony Play Station, 10 times the power of the Nin tendo 64, and four times the graph ics processing power of the fastest Pen tium II ...
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What CPU did the Dreamcast use?

The Dreamcast's main CPU is a two-way 360 MIPS superscalar Hitachi SH-4 32-bit RISC[138] clocked at 200 MHz with an 8 Kbyte instruction cache and 16 Kbyte data cache and a 128-bit graphics-oriented floating-point unit delivering 1.4 GFLOPS.
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Is Dreamcast faster than PS2?

The PS2 has a more powerful CPU geometry engine, higher translucent fillrate, and more main RAM (32 MB, compared to Dreamcast's 16 MB), while the DC has more VRAM (8 MB, compared to PS2's 4 MB), higher opaque fillrate, and more GPU hardware features, with CLX2 capabilities like tiled rendering, super-sample anti- ...
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Is there a 128 bit console?

Also known as the last non-motion control gaming era, the sixth generation is also called the 128-bit generation. The sixth generation began with the release of the Dreamcast in Japan. This generation included the game consoles of the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube and Microsoft Xbox.
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Did Nintendo ever make a 32-bit console?

In fact, Nintendo went from the 64bit N64 (equipped with an R4200-based CPU) to the 32bit, PowerPC750-based Gamecube. That 32bit architecture was even partially re-used with the Wii and Wii U, meaning the Switch is Nintendo's first 64bit console since the late 90s.
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Is The GameCube 32 or 64 bit?

On your Nintendo 64 article, you explained that the system has a 64-bit CPU, but the GameCube one is 32-bit. Did Nintendo downgrade their console? Indeed Gekko implements a 32-bit PowerPC specification, while the MIPS R4300i can switch between 32-bit and 64-bit mode.
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Why was Dreamcast a failure?

After a successful North American launch, Dreamcast sales steadily declined despite several price drops. These price drops, in an attempt to compete with Sony, caused the console to be sold at a significant loss. Sega could not afford these losses, as their poor sales in Japan added very little to their revenue stream.
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Why was Dreamcast blue?

1999–2002 (Europe/Australia)

The European/Australian version was colored blue to avoid trademark infringement issues with German video game publisher Tivola; who had been using an orange swirl as its logo since 1995.
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How much did Sega lose on Dreamcast?

It said the demise of Dreamcast would lead to an extraordinary loss of ¥80 billion ($688 million) for the year to March 30, 2001. Sega expects to post a consolidated net loss for the year of ¥58.3 billion ($502 million).
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