Are These The Specs For Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Successor?

Posted by: Williams P. January 21, 2013 in Games, News, Rumor

Are these the specs for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 successor, codenamed Durango? vgleaks.com sure believes so, posting the above system diagram on its site.

Of note are the 8 GBs of DDR3 RAM, a Blu-ray drive (anyone remember HD-DVD? Neither do I), and hardware support for the inevitable successor of the Kinect. There’s a lot of mumbo jumbo I don’t fully understand here, but from what I can gather, the Durango is gonna be a beast. Of course, take all of this with a grain of salt, as this is only a rumor, and nothing more. With that in mind, here is the complete list of the specifications:

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: