Xbox 720 specs "leaked"

[Titan]

Another rumor but with the next generation of consoles coming up, I think we\'re over due here for a good old fashioned console discussion. Here\'s the article

http://www.gamespot.com/news/xbox-720-hardware-detailed-report-6402692

The rumours surrounding Microsoft\'s successor to the Xbox continue to mount, with one website claiming to have had access to the machine\'s specifications in full. According to technical documents acquired by VGLeakz, the console will feature an 8-core CPU, Blu-Ray, a DirectX 11.1-capable GPU and 8GB of DDR3 RAM.

The site also claims that the next Xbox\'s processor will feature an x64 8-core CPU with a clock of 1.6Ghz. Each "CPU thread has its own 32KB L1 instruction cache and 32KB L1 data cache", while both modules "of four CPU cores has a 2MB L2 cache resulting in a total of 4MB of L2 cache."

On top of that, "each core has one fully independent hardware thread with no shared execution resources" and "each hardware thread can issue two instructions per clock," according to the site.

Elsewhere in the document, the Xbox 720 - codenamed Durango - will allegedly feature 8GB of DDR3 RAM, a 6x Blu-Ray drive and 32MB of embedded SRAM.

The GPU will support DirectX 11.1, run at a core of 800mhz and feature 12 shader cores which provide "a total of 768 threads." The document reports that at peak performance "the GPU can effectively issue 1.2 trillion floating-point operations per second."

The document also claims that Microsoft\'s latest version of Kinect is always present, presumably indicating that the motion-sensor will be build into the machine itself.

Another point mentioned is that a SATA 2.0 "hard drive is always present", suggesting that Microsoft\'s next machine won\'t allow for optional hard drives in the way the Xbox 360 did.

Rounding off the rumoured specifications is support for HDMI 1.4a, 802.11n Wi-Fi and USB 3.0 alongside a bevy of codecs, multi-channel echo cancellation for Kinect and "cryptography engines for encryption and decryption, and hashing".

Microsoft is expected to formally announce its next Xbox within the next few months.

[GmanJoe]

Fu ck the Xbox 720!

[Titan]

And let the fanboy arguments begin

[clips]

Another point mentioned is that a SATA 2.0 "hard drive is always present", suggesting that Microsoft\'s next machine won\'t allow for optional hard drives in the way the Xbox 360 did.

Not that i will be getting a xbox machine anyway, buti liked the fact that at least with the ps3, i was able to switch from a 40g to a 500g hd...with ease and on the cheap.

This is suggesting that you won\'t be able to upgrade the drive?...correct?

[Evi]

It\'s not hard to upgrade the Xbox drive either.

[Titan]

Not that i will be getting a xbox machine anyway, buti liked the fact that at least with the ps3, i was able to switch from a 40g to a 500g hd...with ease and on the cheap.

This is suggesting that you won\'t be able to upgrade the drive?...correct?

All it is is a matter of opening the back, unscrewing a couple screws and putting a new one in. I actually have to do this soon. My hard drive is nearly full. Though I\'m glad its going to be much simpler than when I had to replace the laser

[GmanJoe]

I\'ve read some people have used SSD for their PS3. Obviously all the games load much quicker.

[Titan]

I\'ve read some people have used SSD for their PS3. Obviously all the games load much quicker.

I\'ve read that too. Though I didnt think I read there was that significant of a performance gain. Gonna research it again. Don\'t have the money for an SSD and if I did, it\'d be going in my computer

[Paul2]

*thread resurrected*

didn't remember this thread but i just happened to see thread from some guest reading it, so i click on it.  Was surprised the specs for xbox one that was leaked was very accurate for the most part like 8 core, 8 GB DDR3.  didn't know it runs at 1.6 GHz, if that's true, then cool.  Only thing that i think wasn't accurate was that its actually x86-64 architecture, not x64.  But beside that, i think the leaked specs was very accurate months before the official specs release.