Leaked Xbox 360 specs and Xbox Live details?

By Peter Rojas

These could be completely fake, but some semi-plausible specs for the new
Xbox 360, as well as some details about Xbox Live, were posted and then quickly pulled from the TeamXbox forums. The part about it having a 20GB detachable hard drive seems a little sketch, since we'd heard something about it being a 40GB drive, but the rest of it seems to make sense. You have exactly 77 hours to argue over whether or not these are for real.

[Thanks, Joe]

2 types of Xbox Live:
Xbox Live Silver (no subscription required)
Xbox Live Gold (subscription benefits)

Features for Gold service
* Also for Silver
# Also for Offline

– Seamless transition to Xbox Live account from Xbox to Xbox 360
– Access to MMOs (additional fees may apply) *
– Free Xbox Live weekends *
– Multiplayer online gameplay
– Avatar for gamer profile * #
– Motto for gamer profile * #
– Personalized look for Xbox System Guide * #
– Offline achievments * #
– Online achievements *
– Access to other players? Gamer cards via Live *
– Cumulative gamer score * #
– Location/language profile * #
– Reputation *
– Enahnced matchmaking using above
– Skill level matchmaking
– Gameplay style profile (casual, competitive, etc.)
– Recent players list *
– Free and premium download game content *
– Free and premium downloadable movies, music, tv *
– Downloadable demos/trailers *
– Microtransactions *
– Custom playlist in every game * #
– Play music from portable devices * #
– View images from digital camera * #
– Strem media from Windows XP * #
– Interactive screen savers * #
– Track info for CDs * #
– Communication with voice, video or text *

360 HW:
1. Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD
2. All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
3. Customizable face plates to change appearance
4. 3 USB 2.0 ports
5. Support for 4 wireless controllers
6. Detachable 20GB drive
7. Wi-Fi ready

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
– 3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each
– 2 hardware threads per core
– 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core
– 1 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance
– 9 billion dots per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor
– 500 MNz
– 10 MB embedded DRAM
– 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines
– unified shader architecture

Memory
-512 MB GDDR3 RAM
– 700 MNz DDR

Memory Bandwidth
– 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
– 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
– 21.6 GB/s frontside bus

Audio
– Mulitchannel surround sond output
– Supports 48khz 16-bit audio
– 320 independent decompression channels
– 32 bit processing
– 256+ audio channels

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