Johnny Punani2 Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/02/03/xbox_2_to_sport_three/ Xbox 2 to sport three 64-bit IBM chips, ATI R500 By Tony Smith Published Tuesday 3rd February 2004 14:35 GMT Microsoft's Xbox 2 console - aka Xbox Next - will be powered by three IBM PowerPC G5-class 64-bit processors, with graphics driven by ATI's next generation of accelerator chip. So claims a San Jose Mercury News story, with further details published at TeamXbox. The next-gen Xbox will boast three PowerPC 976 chips, each based on IBM's Power 5 architecture and fabbed at 65nm. That Power 5 connection means each will offer simultaneous multi-threading technology, allowing them to process two program instruction streams at the same time. With three CPUs in the box, and an alleged two cores per die, that means the console has the equivalent of 12 processors inside - a lot of processing horsepower, if the console and chip specs. are to be believed. Alongside them will be an ATI R500 graphics chip, apparently. It will support DirectX 10, which will also provide the graphics API for the next major version of Windows, 'Longhorn'. The R500 die contains its own frame buffer embedded DRAM, which, it's claimed, will yield HDTV picture resolution with full-screen anti-aliasing. Backing that will be 256MB of SDRAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkey66 Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 Originally posted by Johnny 'Luscious' Punani The R500 die contains its own frame buffer embedded DRAM, which, it's claimed, will yield HDTV picture resolution with full-screen anti-aliasing. Backing that will be 256MB of SDRAM. wow... madden 2006 anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wicked Wop Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 Sounds sweet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyDave Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 Interesting but the other rumor was that the PS3 still exceeded the Xbox2 which had microsoft thinking about backdooring Sony to snag Toshibas technology. Either way I see two stellar gaming systems coming out but PS3 better come with a hard drive or high storage equivalent. I think NFL Live should have the inside track on having a game to utilize the HDTV technology out of the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsbadd Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 I don't care how much horsepower they put in the thing, I would rather they upgrade the drives. I have had 2 drives fail on my xbox so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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