Review on Xbox 360

For this next-generation Xbox, Microsoft is not just building a great gaming system, but also a great entertainment platform.

One of the things that excites me the most about the Xbox 360 is its advanced hardware specs. Yes, yes, I know, Microsoft says that "in the HD Era the platform is bigger than the processor" and I agree with that, but I can't help thinking about the things that this hardware will be able to pull off.

The Xbox 360 represents a technological breakthrough only possible because of the hard work of hundreds of masterminds around the world who converged to create the ultimate gaming machine. Unreal Engine 3-powered games running at 1280x720 with full screen anti-aliasing? Not a problem for the Xbox 360.
Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU 3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
2 hardware threads per core; 6 hardware threads total
1 VMX-128 vector unit per core; 3 total
128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
1 MB L2 cache


CPU Game Math Performance 9 billion dot product operations per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor 500 MHz
10 MB embedded DRAM
48-way parallel floating-point dynamically-scheduled shader pipelines
Unified shader architecture

Polygon Performance 500 million triangles per second

Pixel Fill Rate 16 gigasamples per second fillrate using 4X MSAA

Shader Performance 48 billion shader operations per second

Memory 512 MB GDDR3 RAM
700 MHz DDR
Unified memory architecture

Memory Bandwidth 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
21.6 GB/s front-side bus

Overall System Floating-Point Performance 1 TFLOP

Storage Detachable and upgradeable 20 GB hard drive
12X dual-layer DVD-ROM
Memory unit support starting at 64 MB

I/O Support for up to 4 wireless game controllers
3 USB 2.0 ports
2 memory unit slots

Optimized for Online Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features, including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, Gamer Profile for digital identity and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies or listening to music
Built in Ethernet Port
Wi-Fi Ready: 802.11 A, B and G
Video Camera Ready


Digital Media Support Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD
Stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras, Windows XP PCs
Rip music to Xbox 360 hard drive
Custom playlists in every game
Windows Media Center Extender built in
Interactive, full screen 3D visualizers

HD Game Support All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
Standard definition and high definition video output supported

Audio Multichannel surround sound output
Supports 48 KHz 16-bit audio
320 independent decompression channels
32-bit audio processing
Over 256 audio channels

System Orientation Stands vertically or horizontally

Customizable Face Plates Interchangeable to personalize the console

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[PrettyPinkPwnies]

You call this a review?

[XxMultiKill0081xX]

There both GREAT consoles but i prefer the 360 because of the controls

[Nadav34]

Does the Xbox 360 run a PowerPC 970MP or its it even faster than the quad core G5?

[VideoGameExplorers]

What the fuck is wrong with your specs for your so called "Sony Xbox 360?"

For example, "Shader Performance 48 billion shader operations per second"

Just so you know the GTX 580, the best graphics processing unit to date, does 395,264 Shader Operations a second, and no game today has pushed the GTX 580's shading processing power yet.

PS: Gigasamples is not a word.

[Benjamin028u20]

@XxMultiKill0081xX

suckish reason

[TheKiller982]

@musicman216 cuz its the 2010 model with 3 heat sinks i mean JASPER or what they call it........i had the RRoD 5 times i remember and its still working..:D if u wana prevent RRod, install games onto your hard drive and then play it, i remember that i played resident evil 5 for 3 hours and when i checked the xbox it was then starting to heat......:o

[ConfoundCinema]

I win?

[HeroDanny]

i have to agree, this is the worst review ever,

i love my xbox 360

but come on this is dumb

[Shartl9]

I dont have an XBOX XD but red ring of death i hate

[musicman216]

@TheKiller982 Wait, It's better? Why?

[TheKiller982]

ITS MICROSOFT XBOX 360!!!!! Not SONY ......... ITS SONY PS1, PS2, PS3, PSP, PSX etc U NOOB!!!!!!!!! And yeah I got the new Xbox 360 core system 2010 and its a lot better then the older ones.....

[paladinPB]

@TheABBO94 sure, resend....