May 09, 2005
Xbox 360 Confirmed Specs Released
According to GamingHorizon's sources, they believe these are the real deal specs for the Xbox 360. They are similar in nature to the spec leaks we seem before and seem accurate to me.
Specifications:
* Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD
* All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
* Customizable face plates to change appearance
* 3 USB 2.0 ports
* Support for 4 wireless controllers
* Detachable 20GB drive
* Wi-Fi ready
Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
* 3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each
* 2 hardware threads per core
* 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core
* 1 MB L2 cache
CPU Game Math Performance
* 9 billion dots per second
Custom ATI Graphics Processor
* 500 MNz
* 10 MB embedded DRAM
* 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines
* unified shader architecture
Memory
* 512 MB GDDR3 RAM
* 700 MNz DDR
Memory Bandwidth
* 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
* 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
* 21.6 GB/s front side bus
Audio
* Multi channel surround sound output
* Supports 48khz 16-bit audio
* 320 independent decompression channels
* 32 bit processing
* 256+ audio channels
The funny thing is it costs $2000+ to get a Mac dual 2.5ghz PowerPC system these days. Xbox 360 will have 3 3.2 ghz PowerPC cores for a few hundred bucks. You have to love the money losing magic of next generation console launches.
The 512MB of memory is pretty sweet for a console as is 3 USB 2.0 standard ports. Peripheral expansion possibilities galore. [Discuss]
