It seems that by the time the MTV preview of XBox 360 airs, we will all know more about the console than even Frodo himself. During late April and early May we have gradually found out that Xenon's market name will be XBox 360, what the controllers will look like and what the actual console will look like. More recently we've had the latest camera-phone images from the XBox 2 launch party and details of some of the console's extras such as an eye-toy-like camera gizmo and the hard drive extra.
Now a set of the full console specs is doing the rounds and insiders seem to think that it's the real thing.
Without further delay then, here is the full list of leaked XBox 360 specs:
Processor (IBM Power PC based design):
- 3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each
- 2 hardware threads per core
- 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core
- 1 MB L2 cache
CPU Game Math Performance:
- 9 billion dots per second
Custom ATI Graphics Processor:
- 500 MHz
- 10 MB embedded DRAM
- 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines
- unified shader architecture
Memory:
-512 MB GDDR3 RAM
- 700 MHz DDR
Memory Bandwidth:L
- 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
- 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
- 21.6 GB/s frontside bus
Audio:
- Mulitchannel surround sond output
- Supports 48khz 16-bit audio
- 320 independent decompression channels
- 32 bit processing
- 256+ audio channels
Overall Hardware:
360 HW:
- Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD
- All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
- Customizable face plates to change appearance
- 3 USB 2.0 ports
- Support for 4 wireless controllers
- Detachable 20GB drive
- Wi-Fi ready
Possibly the most appealing aspect of the new XBox for gamers will be the availability of a rather robust free version of XBox Live (Silver) while a premium one (Gold) will offer a variety of extra options.
Features for Gold service
* Also for Silver
# Also for Offline
- Seamless transition to Xbox Live account from Xbox to Xbox 360
- Access to MMOs (additional fees may apply) *
- Free Xbox Live weekends *
- Multiplayer online gameplay
- Avatar for gamer profile * #
- Motto for gamer profile * #
- Personalized look for Xbox System Guide * #
- Offline achievments * #
- Online achievements *
- Access to other players' Gamer cards via Live *
- Cumulative gamer score * #
- Location/language profile * #
- Reputation *
- Enhanced matchmaking using above
- Skill level matchmaking
- Gameplay style profile (casual, competitive, etc.)
- Recent players list *
- Free and premium download game content *
- Free and premium downloadable movies, music, tv *
- Downloadable demos/trailers *
- Microtransactions *
- Custom playlist in every game * #
- Play music from portable devices * #
- View images from digital camera * #
- Strem media from Windows XP * #
- Interactive screen savers * #
- Track info for CDs * #
- Communication with voice, video or text *
