Rumor - Durango (Xbox 720) Specs Unveiled

21st January, 17 replies

Xbox One, Microsoft Studios

As we promised during the weekend in the next weeks we will unveil Durango and Orbis. All the technical info you want to know about the next generation machines from Sony and Microsoft.

The first one is Durango. In this article we present the system overview with the general components and some technical details about them.

How are durango components connected?

Above you can see the Durango system block diagram.

Let’s check what’s inside the box:

CPU:

- x64 Architecture
- 8 CPU cores running at 1.6 gigahertz (GHz)
- each CPU thread has its own 32 KB L1 instruction cache and 32 KB L1 data cache
- each module of four CPU cores has a 2 MB L2 cache resulting in a total of 4 MB of L2 cache
- each core has one fully independent hardware thread with no shared execution resources
- each hardware thread can issue two instructions per clock

GPU:

- custom D3D11.1 class 800-MHz graphics processor
- 12 shader cores providing a total of 768 threads
- each thread can perform one scalar multiplication and addition operation (MADD) per clock cycle
- at peak performance, the GPU can effectively issue 1.2 trillion floating-point operations per second

High-fidelity Natural User Interface (NUI) sensor is always present

Storage and Memory:

- 8 gigabyte (GB) of RAM DDR3 (68 GB/s)
- 32 MB of fast embedded SRAM (ESRAM) (102 GB/s)
- from the GPU’s perspective the bandwidths of system memory and ESRAM are parallel providing combined peak bandwidth of 170 GB/sec.
- Hard drive is always present
- 50 GB 6x Blu-ray Disc drive

Networking:

- Gigabit Ethernet
- Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Direct

Hardware Accelerators:

- Move engines
- Image, video, and audio codecs
- Kinect multichannel echo cancellation (MEC) hardware
- Cryptography engines for encryption and decryption, and hashing

What do you think?

Source:

gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/…

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  • Chef Jason Mcgoldrick
    well, looks like there is going to be a console war again, if these specs are right. The new ps3 has better hardware again.
    — 9th April
  • Jorge
    Darth.Equinox
    What Ever U Been Smoking DUDE.
    If That Was The Case U Would Not See A Panasonic ,Samsun,Toshiba Blueray Players Do Ur Homework BUD LMAO.
    — 5th February
  • Ryan Spurgeon
    Oh! Welcome to the site darth.equinox
    — 26th January
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