Xbox 360 Specs and Xbox live

jaggeh

The Full article

These could be completely fake, but some semi-plausible specs for the new Xbox 360, as well as some details about Xbox Live, were posted and then quickly pulled from the TeamXbox forums. The part about it having a 20GB detachable hard drive seems a little sketch, since we’d heard something about it being a 40GB drive, but the rest of it seems to make sense. You have exactly 77 hours to argue over whether or not these are for real.

[Thanks, Joe]



2 types of Xbox Live:
Xbox Live Silver (no subscription required)
Xbox Live Gold (subscription benefits)

Features for Gold service
* Also for Silver
# Also for Offline

- Seamless transition to Xbox Live account from Xbox to Xbox 360
- Access to MMOs (additional fees may apply) *
- Free Xbox Live weekends *
- Multiplayer online gameplay
- Avatar for gamer profile * #
- Motto for gamer profile * #
- Personalized look for Xbox System Guide * #
- Offline achievments * #
- Online achievements *
- Access to other players’ Gamer cards via Live *
- Cumulative gamer score * #
- Location/language profile * #
- Reputation *
- Enahnced matchmaking using above
- Skill level matchmaking
- Gameplay style profile (casual, competitive, etc.)
- Recent players list *
- Free and premium download game content *
- Free and premium downloadable movies, music, tv *
- Downloadable demos/trailers *
- Microtransactions *
- Custom playlist in every game * #
- Play music from portable devices * #
- View images from digital camera * #
- Strem media from Windows XP * #
- Interactive screen savers * #
- Track info for CDs * #
- Communication with voice, video or text *

360 HW:
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

ionapaul

Those specs, if correct, point at a very powerful gaming machine. Not really certain what '3 symmetrical cores' means, though - can anyone enlighten me in non-techie language?

kaimera

there seems to be some false info in there from reading the posts that follow.

either way, 2 more days to go before it's announced anyway.

/me wants free LIVE

jaggeh

3 cores is probably false, as intel and amd have just released dual core systems
unles they are talking 3 chip box at 3.2ghz each, but that wouldnt fit in that tiny package with the cooling requirements

Ciaran500

Can we keep the 360 discussion to one thread please. Its already starting to get spread out.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=253725

jaggeh

im linking to a different article and this is purely about the specs shown therein, rather than throw them into a 3 page heavy thread i think it deserves its own

jesus_thats_gre

jaggeh wrote:

3 cores is probably false, as intel and amd have just released dual core systems
unles they are talking 3 chip box at 3.2ghz each, but that wouldnt fit in that tiny package with the cooling requirements

Its 3 seperate cores as oppossed to one physical wafer with two cores on it..


They are all dual threaded too it seems..

garthv

Aye, looks a beast but its probably gonna be a beast on your wallet too

evad_lhorg

backwards compaticble?

Hyzepher

I wouldn't think so

Hyzepher

D

Which format on game disks are they using blue ray something else?

Kazaanova

Doesnt mention, those specs are real by the way.

So how would the 360 match up to high-end PC's in november?

Ciaran500

D wrote:

Which format on game disks are they using blue ray something else?

Standard dvds.

those specs are real by the way.

How do you know that?