Atari Jaguar Specs Sheet

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

The Jaguar has five processors, which are contained in three chips. Two of the chips are proprietary designs, nicknamed "Tom" and "Jerry". The third chip is a standard Motorola 68000 used as a coprocessor. Tom and Jerry are built using an 0.5 micron silicon process. With proper programming, all five processors can run in parallel.
CPU: Tom - Graphics (32 bit RISC, 26.591 MHz, 26.591 MIPS), Object (64 bit RISC), and Blitter (64 bit RISC) processing units
PPU: Motorolla 16 bit 68000 (13.295 MHz)
APU: Jerry - Digital Signal (32 bit RISC, 26.6 MHz, 26.6 MIPS) processing unit
Total Memory: 16 mbits
Colors displayed: 16.8 million
Colors available: 24 bit
Resolution: Varies: RF, S-Video, Composite
Rendering Speed (millions pixels/sec): >850

CD ROM

Transfer Rate: 350K/per second
Average Access: 250ms
CD storage space: 790 Megabytes
Other formats supported: CD+G, Audio CD, (MPEG Cartridge never released)

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