Wednesday, June 30, 2004
XBox 2 Specs Revealed And Analyzed
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "NEWS" @ 10:00 AM
In case you hadn't heard, the XBox 2 specs were revealed all over the place last week. Most people are listing the next generation Xbox as having a 3.5GHz IBM Power PC Processor, a 500MHz ATI graphics processor, 256MB of RAM, and a 12X DVD drive. There is no mention of any internal hard drive however, I am sure that most people can just add an external drive cvia USB or over the network. Of course, since the console is not slated for release until late next year or the year after (competing with Longhorn I see ;-)), things can change.
Anyways, "Xbit Labs has a whole slew of hardware specifications for Microsoft upcoming Xbox 2 gaming console. It looks to be quite a powerhouse for sure: The Xbox 2's central processing unit is a custom processor based on PowerPC technology. The CPU includes three independent processors (cores) on a single die. Each core runs at 3.50GHz speed of faster. The Xbox 2 microprocessor can issue two instructions per clock cycle per core. At peak performance, Xenon can issue 21 billion instructions per second." Read on to find out a lot more.
Anyways, "Xbit Labs has a whole slew of hardware specifications for Microsoft upcoming Xbox 2 gaming console. It looks to be quite a powerhouse for sure: The Xbox 2's central processing unit is a custom processor based on PowerPC technology. The CPU includes three independent processors (cores) on a single die. Each core runs at 3.50GHz speed of faster. The Xbox 2 microprocessor can issue two instructions per clock cycle per core. At peak performance, Xenon can issue 21 billion instructions per second." Read on to find out a lot more.
