Technology Xbox 360 and new Xbox Live specs leak

[Rukas]

Xbox message boards across the 'net were fired up this morning over allegedly leaked specifications detailing Microsoft's plans for Xbox Live on their next-generation console, and specifics on the hardware itself. Though 1UP can't confirm these details with Microsoft until the machine's official unveiling on Thursday, common sense tells you that they look pretty legit.

For your benefit, we've decided to repurpose them directly here - but keep in mind that this info is unconfirmed until Microsoft reveals their new system on Thursday May 12, 2005 (9:30 EST, 6:30 PST).

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 *
- Enhanced 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 * #
- Stream media from Windows XP * #
- Interactive screen savers * #
- Track info for CDs * #
- Communication with voice, video or text *

Hardware:
- 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 frontside bus

Audio:
- Mulitchannel surround sound output
- Supports 48khz 16-bit audio
- 320 independent decompression channels
- 32 bit processing
- 256+ audio channels

I like the sound of that .

http://xbox.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3140234

 

[Rukas]

Size comparison.

 

[ShockA]

Wow... I hope these are the exact specs.

Cause that would make a killer console... and of course.. would blow away PS3

Looks amazing

 

[PaulyPac]

Alleged hardware specifics

3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each

that means its 3.2 ghz in total

 

[Rukas]

Alleged hardware specifics

3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each

that means its 3.2 ghz in total

No I think it means it exactly what it says, 3 symmertrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each.

What Im impressed about is the memory.

And those specs are pretty much confirmed, we'll see in a couple of days though.

 

[Salar]

impressive specs but i'm not going to be fooled. I remember ps2;s hardware specs was meant to launch missiles and blah blah.
It all depends on the games, only recently has xbox been making the most out of it's hardware to produce these awesome games coming out. Compare the graphics of Forza motorsport with Project gotham racing 2. Compare splintercell 3 with 1. Compare halo 2 and 1.
All this hardware specs means nothing if the games don't make the most of it. Hopefully they will.
It's said that it would be priced around $600-$700 Aus dollars, cannot wait.

 

[PaulyPac]

No I think it means it exactly what it says, 3 symmertrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each.

are you mad ? that is not possible

if it were 3.2 ghz each it would be 9+ghz

its 3.2ghz with 3 cpus

3.2ghz x 3cpus = 3.2ghz

all it does is raise the gigaflop

its the same mistake ign.com made

 

[Rukas]

impressive specs but i'm not going to be fooled. I remember ps2;s hardware specs was meant to launch missiles and blah blah.
It all depends on the games, only recently has xbox been making the most out of it's hardware to produce these awesome games coming out. Compare the graphics of Forza motorsport with Project gotham racing 2. Compare splintercell 3 with 1. Compare halo 2 and 1.
All this hardware specs means nothing if the games don't make the most of it. Hopefully they will.
It's said that it would be priced around $600-$700 Aus dollars, cannot wait.

Thats true, but the PS2 being powerful enough to launch missiles, being a super computer, etc etc, was all... well.. lies... oh sorry... "hype." Much like Im sure, based on Sonys track record, the Cell will turn out to be, over hyped.

As for the Xbox's graphics thats true, but that happens in every generation, the last wave of games always uses the hardware the best, thats just the progression of games.

A major problem with the Xbox and Gamecube (i assume) was that a lot of their games were multiplatform games, which means they were designed with the lowest hardware in mind, the PS2. So in reality, certain Xbox games were held back by the PS2's limitations, which will happen to the better system next gen too. Thats why the best looking games were always Xbox only titles (Forza, Halo, DOA, etc).

 

[Salar]

nope your pics are all wrong
this is what it looks like

Before anybody flames the picture, it's a joke. The right pics are the one ruk posted.

 

[PaulyPac]

^ that one looks even better than the official design

all will be revealed tomorrow fan boys

 

[KDeezy]

are you mad ? that is not possible

if it were 3.2 ghz each it would be 9+ghz

its 3.2ghz with 3 cpus

3.2ghz x 3cpus = 3.2ghz

all it does is raise the gigaflop

its the same mistake ign.com made

its just like the DUAL core AMD athlon 64s , each core runs @ the designated ghz so there is 2 procs in one that both run @ 2ghz or w/e amd runs them at.

Each core is a seperate processor.

- 3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each
- 2 hardware threads per core
- 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core
- 1 MB L2 cache

 

[2pac4prez2004]

^ that one looks even better than the official design

all will be revealed tomorrow fan boys

why tomorrow? isnt E3 the 17th?

 

[Devious]

Yep, but MTV is doing a special on it tomorrow, and Friday at 12:30 AM central on CTV in Canada

 

[2pac4prez2004]

Yep, but MTV is doing a special on it tomorrow, and Friday at 12:30 AM central on CTV in Canada

Pacaveli-T tape that shit

 

[Pacaveli-T]

Pacaveli-T tape that shit

just for you buddy

 

[2pac4prez2004]

just for you buddy

thanks dude :thumb:

 

[Kryogenikz]

so yea....anybody catch the MTV show? Looked pretty damn cool i gotta say. In particular the racing game...Project Gotham. Other than that, i'm not that impressed just cuz i didn't see anything that i haven't already seen in pc games. (Doom 3, Half Life 2)


P.S. Perfect Dark was lagging ; /

 

[Rukas]

Official specs:

http://hardware.teamxbox.com/articles/xbox/1144/The-Xbox-360-System-Specifications/p1

Explenation of them:
http://features.teamxbox.com/xbox/1145/The-Xbox-360-Dissected/p1

Stuff about the new Live and more:
http://features.teamxbox.com/xbox/1147/Xbox-360-Software-and-Services-Features/p1

 

[Kryogenikz]

how hot is that?

 

[Kryogenikz]

and this