Xbox 720 Will Be Six Times as Powerful as Current Gen
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The next Xbox will ship to retailers in late October or early November of next year with six times the processing power of the Xbox 360, sources close to the project have told IGN. Following initial reports from tech blogs Fudzilla and SemiAccurate, our sources have confirmed that mass production of the system's GPU will indeed begin by the end of 2012 but will not, however, be based on AMD's 7000 series Southern Islands GPU. Instead, the processor will be derived from the 6000 series, which was introduced last year. More specifically, it will be akin to the Radeon HD 6670, which offers support for DirectX11, multidisplay output, 3D and 1080p HD output. The chip currently has a market price of upwards of $79.99.
In real terms, the Xbox 720's raw graphics processing power is expected to be six times that of the Xbox 360 and will yield 20-percent greater performance than Nintendo's forthcoming console, the Wii U.
Developers are likely to receive development kits based on the system's final configuration in August. Projected pricing for the console was not provided.
cwc123 That's pretty disappointing. My PC has TWO GTX 460s, and just one 460 is roughly equivalent to a Radeon 6850-6870.
You could actually build a rig with better specs than this console right now for under $500....
Really? i don't know about all this tech **** lol, but why the hell don't they just make a high powered pc strictly for gaming? i mean the whole reason i dont play games on pc is it seems complicated, even though im aware its not
Well, you could build it in theory, but obviously it wouldn't be high end. But you could play games on settings around the same as the console. Also, the console's actual CPU would likely be better, but games don't use more than 4 CPU cores anyway at the moment.
And they don't just release a PC because it has too much freedom. That's why. They want you to buy stuff from their overpriced marketplace, and pay $60 a year for Live. On PC, you aren't bound to a single service. If you don't like MS, you can use Valve's Steam or EA's Origin.
cwc123 That's pretty disappointing. My PC has TWO GTX 460s, and just one 460 is roughly equivalent to a Radeon 6850-6870.
You could actually build a rig with better specs than this console right now for under $500....
Really? i don't know about all this tech **** lol, but why the hell don't they just make a high powered pc strictly for gaming? i mean the whole reason i dont play games on pc is it seems complicated, even though im aware its not
Well, you could build it in theory, but obviously it wouldn't be high end. But you could play games on settings around the same as the console. Also, the console's actual CPU would likely be better, but games don't use more than 4 CPU cores anyway at the moment.
And they don't just release a PC because it has too much freedom. That's why. They want you to buy stuff from their overpriced marketplace, and pay $60 a year for Live. On PC, you aren't bound to a single service. If you don't like MS, you can use Valve's Steam or EA's Origin.
cwc123 That's pretty disappointing. My PC has TWO GTX 460s, and just one 460 is roughly equivalent to a Radeon 6850-6870.
You could actually build a rig with better specs than this console right now for under $500....
Really? i don't know about all this tech shit lol, but why the hell don't they just make a high powered pc strictly for gaming? i mean the whole reason i dont play games on pc is it seems complicated, even though im aware its not
It'll be very interesting to see what the next-gen games look like, although I'm more of a Nostalgic player. I do hope to see what games will look like with immense detail like the GCI you see in movies in todays standards.
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