Author: Steve Maughan
Date: 10:20:22 05/13/05
The spec for the new XBox has been released. I somewhat suprised that it doesn't contain an Intel chip but it does look to really quite powerful (6 hardware thread!). Are there any hardware experts out there that would like to comment? This could be a cheap piece of hardware that could play a mean game of chess. Comments? Steve ========================================================================= Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU - Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each - Two hardware threads per core; six hardware threads total - VMX-128 vector unit per core; three total - 128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread - 1 MB L2 cache CPU Game Math Performance - 9 billion dot product operations per second Custom ATI Graphics Processor - 500MHz processor - 10 MB of embedded DRAM - 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines - Unified shader architecture Polygon Performance - 500 million triangles per second Pixel Fill Rate - 16 gigasamples per second fill rate using 4x MSAA Shader Performance - 48 billion shader operations per second Memory - 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM - 700 MHz of DDR - Unified memory architecture Memory Bandwidth - 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth - 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM - 21.6 GB/s front-side bus Overall System Floating-Point Performance - 1 teraflop Storage - Detachable and upgradeable 20GB hard drive - 12x dual-layer DVD-ROM - Memory Unit support starting at 64 MB I/O - Support for up to four wireless game controllers - Three USB 2.0 ports - Two memory unit slots Optimized for Online - Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features with broadband service, including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, gamer profile for digital identity, and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies or listening to music - Built-in Ethernet port - Wi-Fi ready: 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g - Video camera ready Digital Media Support - Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD - Ability to stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras and Windows XP-based PCs - Ability to rip music to the Xbox 360 hard drive • Custom playlists in every game - Built-in Media Center Extender for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 - Interactive, full-screen 3-D visualizers High-Definition Game Support - All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing - Standard-definition and high-definition video output supported Audio - Multichannel surround sound output - Supports 48KHz 16-bit audio - 320 independent decompression channels - 32-bit audio processing - Over 256 audio channels System Orientation - Stands vertically or horizontally Customizable Face Plates - Interchangeable to personalize the console
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