Eccovi le specifiche tecniche della nuova console Microsoft: Xbox 360.

Vi riccordo l'appuntamneto per questa sera sul canale televisivo MTV alle 23:30. Presentazione Xbox 360.

Xbox 360 System Performance Specifications

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
· Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
· Two hardware threads per core; six hardware threads total
· VMX-128 vector unit per core; three total
· 128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
· 1 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance
· 9 billion dot product operations per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor
· 500MHz processor
· 10 MB of embedded DRAM
· 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines
· Unified shader architecture

Polygon Performance
· 500 million triangles per second

Pixel Fill Rate
· 16 gigasamples per second fill rate using 4x MSAA

Shader Performance
· 48 billion shader operations per second

Memory
· 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM
· 700 MHz of DDR
· Unified memory architecture

Memory Bandwidth
· 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
· 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
· 21.6 GB/s front-side bus

Overall System Floating-Point Performance
· 1 teraflop

Storage
· Detachable and upgradeable 20GB hard drive
· 12x dual-layer DVD-ROM
· Memory Unit support starting at 64 MB

I/O
· Support for up to four wireless game controllers
· Three USB 2.0 ports
· Two memory unit slots

Optimized for Online
· Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, gamer profile for digital identity, and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies, or listening to music
· Built-in Ethernet port
· Wi-Fi ready: 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g
· Video camera ready

Digital Media Support
· Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD
· Ability to stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras and Windows XP-based PCs
· Ability to rip music to the Xbox 360 hard drive
· Custom playlists in every game
· Built-in Media Center Extender for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
· Interactive, full-screen 3-D visualizers

High-Definition Game Support
· All games supported at 16:9, 720p, and 1080i, anti-aliasing
· Standard-definition and high-definition video output supported

Audio
· Multi-channel surround sound output
· Supports 48KHz 16-bit audio
· 320 independent decompression channels
· 32-bit audio processing
· Over 256 audio channels

System Orientation
· Stands vertically or horizontally

Customizable Face Plates
· Interchangeable to personalize the console

Availability: Holiday 2005