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Xbox 360 Specs, Features, And More

The list of Xbox 360 leaks just continue to pile on. Coincidentally, you may remember me stating that it seemed as if the only thing that hasn’t leaked regarding the 360 is a spec sheet. Well, just a number of hours after the original story was posted, a list-sheet detailing the Xbox 360’s (alleged) features and (alleged) performance specs made its way on to the net.

The list highlights (alleged) new Xbox Live features, Xbox 360 capabilities/features and Xbox 360’s technical architecture. Remember, this is yet to be confirmed (as if Microsoft would make a confirmation, either way), so it could still be hot-air. But seeing as how nearly every leak related to the 360 has been definite, we’re hard-pressed to call shenanigans on this. Also, apparently this list came out of the newest issue of PLAY.

  2 types of Xbox Live:

  Xbox Live Silver (no subscription required)

  Xbox Live Gold (subscription benefits)

  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 achievements * #

  – 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 *

  – Micro transactions *

  – Custom playlists in every game * #

  – Play music from portable devices * #

  – View images from digital camera * #

  – Stream media from Windows XP * #

  – Interactive screen savers * #

  – Track info for CDs * #

  – Communication with voice, video or text *

  360 HW:

  1. Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW (no burning, just reading/playing), CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD

  2. All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing

  3. Customizable face plates to change appearance

  4. 3 USB 2.0 ports

  5. Support for 4 wireless controllers

  6. Detachable 20GB drive

  7. Wi-Fi ready

  Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU

  – 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 MNz

  – 10 MB embedded DRAM

  – 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines

  – unified shader architecture

  Memory

  -512 MB GDDR3 RAM

  – 700 MNz DDR

  Memory Bandwidth

  – 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth

  – 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM

  – 21.6 GB/s frontside bus

  Audio

  – Mulitchannel surround sound output

  – Supports 48khz 16-bit audio

  – 320 independent decompression channels

  – 32 bit processing

  – 256+ audio channels

Author: Arnold Katayev

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