https://mobile.twitter.com/marcan42/status/274856397915697152

"If you want more evidence that MHz isn't everything, a little birdie points out that Durango (Xbox 720) is specc'ed to have a 1.6GHz CPU."

Do we need DBz pics for next-gen now?

Does this mean CPU *shock* it's based on the type of CPU and architecture?

The guy is legit.

That will be awesome if true. This will shut up all Nintendo haters!

Even so it's 30% more than Wii U lol.

How many cores the 720's CPU will have?

Lol 30% impressive.

4 or 5 mostly likely.

is this the one with a 100 cores.

It's a AMD Trinity based APU (according to S|A rumour). Each core is much, much better per-clock than what the 360/PS3/Wii U has. 4 Bulldozer (x86) cores and recent AMD Radeon shaders.

1.6GHz makes sense because it's effectively a laptop version (35-45W) of a desktop chip (95W) which would run at 3-4GHz. That is the base clock and there could be a Turbo mode above that.

So what's the pipeline length like, is it a risc cpu? How much cache memory is there, does it have a onboard memory controller? How many cores, how many threads per Core? The list goes on and on but basically the guy is full of shit and this is not news just some random ass guess of a figure which is meaningless without context.

No he is legit and has been right before.

his connection is legit he has always been right.

don't hate

Then why did he not give additional details that make it more specific of a claim? Final clockspeed is something that can be varied close to launch as it's only a firmware tweak, so he could be right now yet wrong by the time of the 720 launch. Yet the choice of CPU was decided more than a year ago by commercial necessity, so that information would be fixed and is verifiable earlier.

Does it matter if its not 3.2GHz like the 360? Clock speed is becoming irrelevant in this day and age. Architecture is more important