Xbox360 and spec´s announced

[WolfWooD]

Xbox 360 System Performance - DRAFT
Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU 
- 3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
- 2 hardware threads per core; 6 hardware threads total
- 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core; 3 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
- 500 MHz
- 10 MB 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 fillrate using 4X MSAA
- Shader Performance
- 48 billion shader operations per second

Memory
- 512 MB GDDR3 RAM
- 700 MHz DDR
- Unified memory architecture

Memory Bandwidth
- 22.4 MB/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 TFLOP

Storage
- Detachable and upgradeable 20 GB hard drive
- 12X dual-layer DVD-ROM
- Memory unit support starting at 64 MB

I/O
- Support for up to 4 wireless game controllers
- 3 USB 2.0 ports
- 2 memory unit slots

Optimized for Online
- Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features, 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: 802.11 A, B and G
- 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
- Stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras, Windows XP PCs
- Rip music to Xbox 360 hard drive
- Custom playlists in every game
- Windows Media Center Extender built in
- Interactive, full screen 3D visualizers

HD 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 48 KHz 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




Robbie Bach talks Xbox 360

http://xbox.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=8156


someone teach me or post a pic of the xbox and the controller :D

[rev>thanu]

the 500 million polygons, is that with all effects applied or just raw polygon performance?.

CPU game math
9 billion dot product operations per second.
what the hell does that mean and since when has this term been used to determine math performance.

i'm telling you Microsoft comes up with things just to make their spec sheet look pretty without actually showing numbers that everyone can understand.

They also say overall FLOP performance is 1 teraflop which i assume that it's the combined flops of the CPU and GPU. but not everyone knows this and they might actually believe that it outperformes the cell.

why do you need 3 usb 2.0 ports i thought is was enough with 2. weren't they using memory stick media format for memory cards or flash memory cards.

all that official info microsoft unveiled can be miss leading.

http://xboxmedia.ign.com/xbox/image/article/607/607265/xbox-360-update-42505-20050425024048829.jpg

[Ironlungz]

Is it strange that some details are missing from the specs.; like what features will the ATI chip have, the 500 million trias is that the max or with
shaders turn on, etc.....

[klaymen]

it is obviously with no shaders or whatevers on. why would they put up specs with shaders or other effects? there is no standard for those. it is just like when they call it 56k modem. it is possible, but not practical.

[Domination]

They are water cooled. :shock:

This system sounds really impressive, although I have to admit that 500 million trianles fell below the previous rumors if that does infact mean everything is off.

The online capabilities are sounding really great. But it still sounds like they'll be charging you for it, which was avoided by claiming features out of the box.

IMO, the purchase doesn't sound bad at all....yet.

EDIT:

I notice they didn't go with Bly Ray or HD-DVD. Does this mean they'll be launching the console earlier than expected?

[FerrianX]

Here's an article by AnandTech that looks into it's specs somewhat.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2414

Arstechnica will be working on a more comprehensive article soon, look forward to seeing what Hannibal has to say on the supposed 1Tflop performance from the 360.

[rev>thanu]

they mostlikely will launch earlier than what everyone expected. they're definetely at a disadvantage though. i think microsoft knows their console isn't that revolutionary so they knew they had to launch first in order to compete. it's impossible for them to win against ps3 if it's 3 times more powerfull. if they would have simultaneously launch it would have been catastrophic for them. after all their console was the strongest this generation and loosing that title is like loosing half of their support. like sony said they will be releasing xbox 1.5 and not 2. it's obvious that sony had it's motives to actually attack the xbox 360 in this fashion. i've really never seen sony go out there and start flaming or bashing other companies product like Gamecube or xbox without a motive or actuall proof.

That MTV unveiling just goes to show you how right they were. also i think that they wanted to maintain the cost pretty low and since they included the hard drive as well and Hd DVD and blue ray will mostlikely start manufacturing by the end of this year it would be impossible for Blue ray or HDDVD to meet their deadline. i also believe their design isn't motivative or orginal at all it looks like a PC more than ever. The vertical position was completely inspired by the ps2's design and that's a given i believe and the white color was inspired by the ipod. The detachable HDD was the only innovative new thing i saw in that design. also i though they said that xbox 360 was going to fall under the size between the Original ps2 and Pstwo. guess they lied about that, because it's still bigger than even the regular ps2.