The machine is based on a Motorola 68030 CPU @ 16MHz, a Motorola 56001 digital signal processor @ 32MHz and a socket for an optional FPU.
It also includes a new VIDEL graphics chip which greatly improves its graphics capabilities, offering even a 16-bit truecolor graphics mode. And like the Amstrad CRTC chip, the characterics characteristics of the display can now be defined precisely.
It sports a 1.44MB HD floppy drive. And Atari adopted the IDE bus in addition to the SCSI bus for connecting hard drives and CD-ROM drives.