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Xbox 720 hardware detailed - Report

January 21, 2013 11:16AM PST
By Martin Gaston, News Editor

Microsoft's latest console is rumoured to include 8-core CPU, Blu-Ray, a DirectX 11.1-capable GPU and 8GB of DDR3 RAM.

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.

Elsewhere in next-gen rumours, last week it was reported that Sony's controller for the PlayStation 4 would include an LCD touch-screen and biometric sensors.




       

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These rumors are starting to bug me a lot. We have like 50 rumors so far and all of them are different. Don't they ever get bored of this crap ?



Seems as though a lot of the rumors are lining up with one another. I wonder how much of it is truth.



wouldn't the system be too expensive ???
though these specs are great I doubt that it would be such a machine... Wouldn't the price just be for the power of the system??? what about innovation??



Wander_ said:
These rumors are starting to bug a lot. We have like 50 rumors so far and all of them are different. Don't they ever get bored of this crap ?


A lot share many similarities actually. I think we are starting to get a pretty clear picture



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No... another rumor thread



Wander_ said:
These rumors are starting to bug a lot. We have like 50 rumors so far and all of them are different. Don't they ever get bored of this crap ?

It's the same... all rumos shows the same config... I guess that the final hardware will not changed a lot.

The Nextbox is that.



That would be funny if ms them selfs are starting these rumors.....



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Heaps of these rumors are in line with each other about the 720, Im thinking these rumors are starting 2 hold truth.



 

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Same rumor: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=153318&page=1