First Details: Inside the Xbox 2 - Part 1
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 09/10/2003 02:35 PM [ Print | 5 comment(s) ] · 3194 views
TeamXbox have thrown up the first details for Microsofts Xbox 2.
We?re proud to bring you today the very first info on the Xbox 2 GPU. Our highly placed source within the industry informed us that the graphic technology powering the Xbox successor is a derivative of the R500, the successor of the R420 to be unveiled later this year at Comdex.
This graphic chip has been in design for longer than a year at ATI?s Marlborough, Mass. office and much like the Xbox?s nVIDIA GPU, the Xbox 2 graphic chip will also be a custom silicon that will have the R500 as its core technology.
First Details: Inside the Xbox 2 - Part 1
We?re proud to bring you today the very first info on the Xbox 2 GPU. Our highly placed source within the industry informed us that the graphic technology powering the Xbox successor is a derivative of the R500, the successor of the R420 to be unveiled later this year at Comdex.
This graphic chip has been in design for longer than a year at ATI?s Marlborough, Mass. office and much like the Xbox?s nVIDIA GPU, the Xbox 2 graphic chip will also be a custom silicon that will have the R500 as its core technology.
First Details: Inside the Xbox 2 - Part 1
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Melll Unregistered |
#47093 Posted on: 09/10/2003 05:43 PM
"running at 1600 MHz" "256-bit mode brings up to a shocking 51.2GB/s peak bandwidth!!!" "Speculating the Xbox 2 might ship in Christmas 2005" and the whole system will cost how much? $800 console? |
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El_Coyote Senior Member Posts: 555 Joined: 2002-12-18 |
#47095 Posted on: 09/10/2003 06:53 PM
remember christmas 2005 is a long time away, proces will drop and regular technologies will develop to match. you would properbly be surprised if you knew what compagnies like AMD, Intel and your favorite gfx compagny had in store in the same timeframe. just look at how thinks was for 2 1/4 years ago compared to today. |
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MagamiAKO Unregistered |
#47097 Posted on: 09/10/2003 07:22 PM
What will we be seeing at that time? Video cards are already in the 20GB/second range (Radeon 9700). I'm not sure of the bandwidth on the Radeon 9800. Then there's the whole PCIExpress thing....... oh, and we cannot forget Intel's planned 10Ghz for H106!!!! w00t yeah baby 
*Notes that these statements are made based on previous roadmaps that have been seen and from other various information sources and are provided with the best of his knowledge* |
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Melll Unregistered |
#47103 Posted on: 09/10/2003 10:47 PM
Well, lets look at it this way: Radeon 9800 Pro use the same R350 graphics chip as the 9700 PRO, now ATI had the 9700 to 9800 cycle of 14 months I believe its been... Now R400, R420 etc and then they will intoduce the R500, all this from now to 2005? WERE heading down to 2004!! people think R500 XBOX 2005? |
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edlivian Junior Member Posts: 2 Joined: 2003-07-01 |
#47114 Posted on: 09/11/2003 03:49 AM
Lets sepculate some more: What about Wifi built in? What about tivo type capability? What about compatibility with Xbox 1? What about compatibility with Dreamcast? (MS can easily buy the license from sega) Processor should be between 2.4mhz to 3.0mhz P4 |
