Xbox 720: Blu-ray inside, always-on netcon required

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superchunk said:

There's no way it has a dual-GPU with 7000 series. That would price it out of competition.

Sorry, but this surely not correct... tho most of the rest can easily be speculated based on what we know already and in fact its all in my comparison thread.

Depends on which 7000 series. The 1 GB HD7570 can be found for less than 100 € / a bit more than $ 100 today, in Xmas 2013 they will be well under 40 €/$.

OT: The two GPUs bit of the rumor intrigues me. "Xbox 720′s graphics units will be able to work independently, drawing separate items simultaneously". Do they mean that one will draw the scenario while the other draws the characters? Or 1 GPU used for the main character and the map and the other one for the many enemies that will fight us in the plethora of FPS' that will come? 

And even though each one will have its own memory, they will need to acces the system RAM for things like larger textures. How will the system be able to manage that without "collapsing"?

Interesting rumors.