Next Xbox 'Durango' specs leak (Rumor)

[Teajunkie]

As E3 and the expected announcements of new consoles from Sony and Microsoft draw ever closer, website VGleaks has posted what it claims are specs for the next Xbox. Codenamed Durango, Microsoft's new console will contain an AMD-provided CPU with 8 cores running at 1.6GHz apiece alongside 8GB of DDR3 RAM. The machine will also use a GPU running at 800MHz, and feature a built-in hard drive. The structure reportedly draws from AMD's cost- and power-efficient "Jaguar" designs aimed at the laptop and tablet market.



Durango will also include a "high-fidelity" natural user interface (NUI) sensor. This would suggest that the console has some kind of built-in Kinect functionality, though the inclusion of a dedicated Kinect port seems to indicate that Kinect peripherals will still be available. Also of interest is the capacity for HDMI input, which Digital Foundry speculates could be used for recording or importing video from external sources like cable boxes and personal cameras.

DF offers up some more context for the leak as well, noting that there could be a significant performance gap between the new Xbox and Sony's next PlayStation, specifically with regards to its graphics processor. That's based on the blueprints and specs, mind you - we won't be convinced until we see competing real-time demos of that ballroom dancing scene from Final Fantasy VIII.

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[macmilm]

800 mhz GPU ???? Sounds a bit piss poor IMHO. Surely that can't be accurate ??

[DejaVu]

800 mhz GPU ???? Sounds a bit piss poor IMHO. Surely that can't be accurate ??

Considering the last one was only 500Mhz, and used to boil itself to death, it's a step in the right direction. Consoles shouldn't be compared to PC GPU's.
800Mhz in a console should be immense.

Let's just hope they use better solder and cooling systems to keep these things from melting themselves - and avoiding the RROD (or equivalent). Has it even got a Ring?

[rIKmAN]

I honestly can't see M$ fucking up with the RRoD again, they lost too much money and credibility last time that I think they will spend to make sure it doesn't happen again.

The specs are just that, specs, and on a closed system like a console devs can push every last cycle out of the machine and make them perform way better than on a PC with equivalent specs. A lot of that is lazy coding on the PC as well.

[braymond]

Despite their balls up with with bad cooling and rrod they still did very well with 360.
Didn't seem to hurt them in the long run . Hopefully this time round they will do better with their thermal solution . And it will use lead free solder - and that won't be a problem :-)