GameCube Hardware/Flipper

"Flipper" is the name of the chipset inside of the GameCube. The Flipper chipset contains multiple pieces of hardware all lumped into one. Nintendo claims that the Flipper package is the GameCube's GPU, however, this is not the case. Flipper contains the GPU, but it is not, itself, the GPU.

The Flipper chipset runs at 162MHz. It's contents run at various fractions of that speed.

Flipper contents

The Flipper chip contains the following:

• The GameCube Drive Interface
• The GX GPU from ArtX @ chipset clock
• Various interfaces like AI, SI, EXI.
• An audio DSP by Macronix @ 1/2 chipset clock