Bekanntermaßen befindet sich die Xbox 2 in der Entwicklung. IBM versorgt das Gerät mit den nötigen Prozessoren und ATI liefert die Grafikchips. Soweit nichts Neues.
Nun soll Pete Isensee, der Entwicklungsleiter der XBox Andvanced Technology Group weitere Details zu neuen Box verraten haben.
[quote="Xbox-Scene.com"]
CPU
3.5+ GHz IBM PowerPC processor - The CPU includes three independent processors (cores) on a single die. Each core runs at 3.5+ GHz.
The Xenon CPU can issue two instructions per clock cycle per core. At peak performance, Xenon can issue 21 billion instructions per second. Each of the three cores includes a 32-KB L1 instruction cache and a 32-KB L1 data cache . The three cores share a 1-MB L2 cache .
GPU
500+ MHz ATI Graphics Processor - The shader core has 48 Arithmetic Logic Units (ALUs) - superset of Direct3D version 9.0: 3.0 Shading Language for Pixel and Vertex Shaders + Advanced Pixel Shaders (3.0+)
RAM
256+ MB of unified memory - 22.4+ GB/sec shared BW for both CPU and GPU
Audio
Apparently processed by the CPU.
Game Media
12X DVD Drive/Media
Game Controller
Same as Xbox with the following differences:
- Removal of the Black and White buttons
- Addition of shoulder buttons
Ports
- 4 controller ports
- 2 ports for memory cards (initial memory card size = 64MB)
- USB 2.0 port (not propietary apparently)
- VGA Output
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