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Official Xbox 360 Specs Sheet!!!

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MrControversial

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http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox360/factsheet.htm

Xbox 360 System Performance Specifications
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

* 10 MB of embedded DRAM
* 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines
* 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

* Multi-channel 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




Discuss!

 
To me, it seems like they went on an online retailer and bought one of everything, then rammed them together, as best they could, and called it the 360!
 
It'll be interesting to see if "unified shader" that ATi has been making so much noise about is actually worth anything.

Anyway, I expect this to be the most impressive of the next-gen consoles - it'll be the first console I've bought since the original Nintendo.

Will also be interesting to see how Sony does with Cell/Nvidia.


The big winner in all this is IBM - they're developing the core processors for BOTH companies this time around.
 
This console is going to be fast as balls, Jesus Christ. If this were a PC, it would rape anything on the market. Now think about what devs can do with completely optimized code, developed for a single piece of hardware, without having to deal with compatibility issues. The new consoles are going to be absolutely ridiculous. I can't wait to see how the PC market catches up visually within the next few years.

Games will probably look a lot better on the xbox360 than the pc in 2006.
 
So am I the only one who thinks that either the specs or the release date is wishful thinking right now? I mean, PowerPC single cores top out at 2.7 on Mac water cooling, and no one's really even seen a dual/tri-cored PPC...but they're telling us it will run 3 x 3.2? It just all seems like a lot of vaporware, all things considered. It's a very exciting prospect, but damn that's a lot of uber hardware to package for console costs, all within 6 months.
 
Originally posted by: ZobarStyl
So am I the only one who thinks that either the specs or the release date is wishful thinking right now? I mean, PowerPC single cores top out at 2.7 on Mac water cooling, and no one's really even seen a dual/tri-cored PPC...but they're telling us it will run 3 x 3.2? It just all seems like a lot of vaporware, all things considered. It's a very exciting prospect, but damn that's a lot of uber hardware to package for console costs, all within 6 months.
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They'll either make it or they won't.
 
I'm sorry but the XBOX 360 design looks like a IPOD on steroids.. I'll play xbox 360 someone house but wont buy, I'm still SONY fanboy... 😉
 
Originally posted by: ZobarStyl
So am I the only one who thinks that either the specs or the release date is wishful thinking right now? I mean, PowerPC single cores top out at 2.7 on Mac water cooling, and no one's really even seen a dual/tri-cored PPC...but they're telling us it will run 3 x 3.2? It just all seems like a lot of vaporware, all things considered. It's a very exciting prospect, but damn that's a lot of uber hardware to package for console costs, all within 6 months.
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It is an entirely different processor. This will probably be more like a P4 rather than a G5 or A64 in that it will probably do less work per clock.
 
Originally posted by: ZobarStyl
So am I the only one who thinks that either the specs or the release date is wishful thinking right now? I mean, PowerPC single cores top out at 2.7 on Mac water cooling, and no one's really even seen a dual/tri-cored PPC...but they're telling us it will run 3 x 3.2? It just all seems like a lot of vaporware, all things considered. It's a very exciting prospect, but damn that's a lot of uber hardware to package for console costs, all within 6 months.
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Those aren't the same chips. This system isn't going to have 3 x 3.2GHZ G5 chips, these processors are very similar to the Cell processor that both Sony and Nintendo are going to be using.
 
Fair enough, it's just all the reviews I've seen they've tried to act like this will put PC's behind for 2 years...which of course is nonsense. If IBM had such a chip that was leaps and bounds ahead of the competition, they'd be selling it in servers and making trillions. XBox 1 was modified PC hardware; there's no reason to think anything this good wouldn't be modded back to PC (of course, that's a lovely feat of irony).

I do however think Cell is an idea far ahead of its time, which makes me wonder how it will fare.
 
No matter how much of a beast this thing will be now in 2 years when it starts to become outdated (just my guess) I'll laugh as I drop a new video card and CPU into my computer. That kind of speed for that little money is real bang for your buck but the lack of upgradeability is a real disadvantage.
 
Originally posted by: fierydemise
No matter how much of a beast this thing will be now in 2 years when it starts to become outdated (just my guess) I'll laugh as I drop a new video card and CPU into my computer. That kind of speed for that little money is real bang for your buck but the lack of upgradeability is a real disadvantage.
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Originally posted by: ZobarStyl
Fair enough, it's just all the reviews I've seen they've tried to act like this will put PC's behind for 2 years...which of course is nonsense. If IBM had such a chip that was leaps and bounds ahead of the competition, they'd be selling it in servers and making trillions. XBox 1 was modified PC hardware; there's no reason to think anything this good wouldn't be modded back to PC (of course, that's a lovely feat of irony).

I do however think Cell is an idea far ahead of its time, which makes me wonder how it will fare.
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There are solutions like this out there (see quad opterons). They just aren't made for desktop users. You are an idiot.
 
Originally posted by: fierydemise
No matter how much of a beast this thing will be now in 2 years when it starts to become outdated (just my guess) I'll laugh as I drop a new video card and CPU into my computer. That kind of speed for that little money is real bang for your buck but the lack of upgradeability is a real disadvantage.
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You will also spend up to 3 times as much on your computer as you will on the xbox. What would you rather buy, a $400 video card and $200 cpu or a $300 xbox360? I'll take the xbox over PC upgrades any day.

I don't see many people complaining about the lack of xbox (original) upgradeability.
 
Perfek: Are you kidding? Did you even read what I said? By your 'logic' there's no reason to have dual core anything, since dual processor setups already exist. I'm saying that if they've got such a monster processor with three cores, they'd be packaging to compete with those kind of server systems in addition to just selling it at a loss to console people.

I don't see many people complaining about the lack of xbox (original) upgradeability.
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Oh that's a gem, considering how many people I know who've modded the hell out of their xboxes (but then they no longer play online). With my PC, I don't have to sacrifice any functionality as a tradeoff to trying to change the system.

EDIT: by the way, I'm not bashing consoles, I just dislike PC bashing by console kids. I do have a console, but it's a GameCube, which to me is the only one out there that actually makes console style games. All the 'good' XBox games were just things much better suited for PC's (read: FPS).
 
Last I heard, MS is targetting a 65nm process for this. We already know that IBM's latest 90nm process has both SOI and Strained Silicon, so we can assume that the process for the Xbox 360 core will also implement both technologies. On top of this we don't know much about the architectural details of the core itself. Likely, this core is loosely based on the Power5 but nobody knows exactly what it's like.

As for the PC versus console argument, it's been beaten to death already. All I know is that for gaming I'd rather be on my sofa in front of a big-screen HDTV than in front of my computer.
 
OMG SPECS I GOTTA BEAT OFF :|


did anyone watch teh MTV thing? it was HORRIBLE. the games look like any shi tty old games that could be on any system out right now. nothing new. graphics didnt even look any better.

 
Originally posted by: ZobarStyl
Perfek: Are you kidding? Did you even read what I said? By your 'logic' there's no reason to have dual core anything, since dual processor setups already exist. I'm saying that if they've got such a monster processor with three cores, they'd be packaging to compete with those kind of server systems in addition to just selling it at a loss to console people.

I don't see many people complaining about the lack of xbox (original) upgradeability.
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Oh that's a gem, considering how many people I know who've modded the hell out of their xboxes (but then they no longer play online). With my PC, I don't have to sacrifice any functionality as a tradeoff to trying to change the system.

EDIT: by the way, I'm not bashing consoles, I just dislike PC bashing by console kids. I do have a console, but it's a GameCube, which to me is the only one out there that actually makes console style games. All the 'good' XBox games were just things much better suited for PC's (read: FPS).
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Oh wow they put new hard drives in guise, check da modz out!!

Xbox modding does nothing for performance. Repeat, xbox modding does nothing for performance.

Comparing adding a new hard drive to buying a new video card and cpu is ridiculous.


Also, we don't know if this tricore CPU is actually going to be faster than 2006 Opterons and Itaniums (or w/e they use). Sure, it looks good on paper but in terms of real-world performance, perhaps the architecture just isn't suited to the PC/server market. You don't see everyone running around with CRAYs just because they are available.

 
Originally posted by: dcdude
OMG SPECS I GOTTA BEAT OFF :|


did anyone watch teh MTV thing? it was HORRIBLE. the games look like any shi tty old games that could be on any system out right now. nothing new. graphics didnt even look any better.
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They lighting and shaders were extremely impressive but the poly counts look low and they don't even have anisotropic filtering enabled in GR3.
 
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