newly leaked (or released?) specifications for the Xbox2 ~ Xenon ~
Xbox360


____________________________________________________
Xbox 360 Hardware:

1. Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA
CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD
2. All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
3. Customizable face plates to change appearance
4. 3 USB 2.0 ports
5. Support for 4 wireless controllers
6. Detachable 20GB drive
7. 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 frontside bus

Audio
- Mulitchannel surround sond output
- Supports 48khz 16-bit audio
- 320 independent decompression channels
- 32 bit processing
- 256+ audio channels
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sources / urls / links

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=344052&page=1&pp=15
http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=46443
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22701

(read the discussions too)

Am I supposed to believe this thing will be $299?

LOL


"R500 Xenon" <R500Xenon[at]Xbox360.com> wrote in message
news:dKidnY-SWZ5XN-LfRVn-vQ[at]comcast.com...
> newly leaked (or released?) specifications for the Xbox2 ~ Xenon ~
> Xbox360
>
>
> ____________________________________________________
> Xbox 360 Hardware:
>
> 1. Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW,
> WMA CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD
> 2. All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
> 3. Customizable face plates to change appearance
> 4. 3 USB 2.0 ports
> 5. Support for 4 wireless controllers
> 6. Detachable 20GB drive
> 7. 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 frontside bus
>
> Audio
> - Mulitchannel surround sond output
> - Supports 48khz 16-bit audio
> - 320 independent decompression channels
> - 32 bit processing
> - 256+ audio channels
> _________________________________________________
>
>
>

BlueNeo wrote:
> Am I supposed to believe this thing will be $299?
>
> LOL

Why not? MS, took a bath on the first one, so why should round 2 be any
different?
>
>
> "R500 Xenon" <R500Xenon[at]Xbox360.com> wrote in message
> news:dKidnY-SWZ5XN-LfRVn-vQ[at]comcast.com...
>
>>newly leaked (or released?) specifications for the Xbox2 ~ Xenon ~
>>Xbox360
>>
>>
>>____________________________________________________
>>Xbox 360 Hardware:
>>
>>1. Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW,
>>WMA CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD
>>2. All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
>>3. Customizable face plates to change appearance
>>4. 3 USB 2.0 ports
>>5. Support for 4 wireless controllers
>>6. Detachable 20GB drive
>>7. 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 frontside bus
>>
>>Audio
>>- Mulitchannel surround sond output
>>- Supports 48khz 16-bit audio
>>- 320 independent decompression channels
>>- 32 bit processing
>>- 256+ audio channels
>>_________________________________________________
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>

In comp.arch.embedded BlueNeo <blue[at]blue.net> wrote:
> Am I supposed to believe this thing will be $299?
>
> LOL
>
Yes, and they'll prolly charge half that for a game.

--

Wing Wong.

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"Steve Travis" <steve.travis[at]gmail.com> wrote in message
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> BlueNeo wrote:
>> Am I supposed to believe this thing will be $299?