Arch's Analysis: Low end graphics card does not a bad console make.

Archimedies123 shares his views of the rumored hardware features for the new model xbox.

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[wiilover07]

I'm a gamer not a graphics whore I don't care about the specs of a system. I buy for games and only games. I stick with Nintendo cause I know they have the best 1st party and a lot of 3rd party surprises as well.

[Jac0bBau3r1995]

@hirosese so you ignored what he said at the beginning or what?

[hirosese]

of all people i didn't expect you to be this stupid, for one the Xbox 720 ain't coming out till 2 years from now so you specs are flawed, so just let Nintendo dominate for the next five years

[Jac0bBau3r1995]

@mobius1aic Them are some big words. So I'm going to explain it all with magic.

[mobius1aic]

My "reasonable" Xbox 720:

Quad Core IBM Power7 CPU

Juniper GPU

3 GB of GDDR5 - unified memory architecture via 192 bit bus for ~96 GB/s of memory bandwidth minimum.

Blu-Ray drive

16 GB Flash ROM in all systems (upper end models available with HDDs as well).

$400 would be a pretty reasonable price point and should still be profitable.

[mobius1aic]

@mobius1aic Juniper has the right combination of capability, features, size, TDP, power usage, and thermals to be a good GPU for the next Xbox. It's memory controller is also GDDR5 ready.

Xenos - 500 MHz clock

48 Shader SIMDs = 240 GFLOPS

16 Texture Mapping Units = 8 GigaTexels

8 Raster Output Processors = 4 GigaPixels

[mobius1aic]

@mobius1aic Realistically, I would expect Juniper or Barts, and just maybe Cypress. Juniper and Cypress are VLIW5 SIMD GPUs, of which Xenos is as well IIRC, but Barts is VLIW4. I think it would be more intelligent to stick with a VLIW5 SIMD GPU, since it's what 360 devs pretty much already know, and leave out one less issue in making backwards compatibility a possibility. Cypress is a pretty large and hot die even at 40 nm, though a 28 nm shrink would cut down power use and TDP tremendously.

[mobius1aic]

Forgotten Hope 2 BF2 mod theme music at the beginning.....lol

Ok the GPU in the 6670, known as 'Turks' is -about- 3x as powerful as Xenos in the 360. It should be able to do the 360's current basic level of graphics at 1080p, but at that resolution don't expect any other enhancements. At 720p, however, you can expect quite a bit of upgraded visuals, especially if the memory size and bandwidth is there to support it. I however think that the 6670 will not be the GPU in the "neXtbox".