Rumor: Next Xbox to have 16 cores in processor?

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Is the next version of the Xbox game console from Microsoft going to have a CPU with a ton of cores inside? That's the claim from the UK-based print magazine Xbox World. Venture Beat reports that according to the print article, the next Xbox will have a processor based on IBM's PowerPC design that will have a whopping 16 cores inside. By comparison, the Xbox 360 only has three cores in its CPU.

The article also says that the next Xbox will have a GPU from AMD that will be based on the Radeon 7000 series graphics chip. This new rumor claims that development kits for the next Xbox have been sent to some game developers in March.

Unconfirmed reports claim that Microsoft might try to launch the next Xbox by the end of 2013. Sony is reportedly going to try to beat Microsoft to market with its follow-up to the Playstation 3, which one web site, Kotaku, claims has the code-name Orbis. The next Sony game console could have AMD making both the CPU and GPU. Finally, Nintendo has plans to release the Wii U by the end of 2012 but new, unconfirmed, claims have its graphics as powerful as the Xbox 360 or the PS3.

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Source: http://www.neogamr.net/news/rumor-next-xbox-to-have-16-cores-in-processor

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Sonny-MoorePosted:

has no one been paying attention to how much this will cost? the next gen consoles will be fantabulous

-NexusPosted:

B3ASTiixRAMPAG3 Doubt it xbox already had overheating problems,

then they decide to put more than triple the amount

of cores, highly unlikely.

ahhhh i see what you did there;)

KnucklesTheEchidnaPosted:

Im totally switching to PC gaming when these next gen consoles hit.

_CLJWPosted:

I can see this happening.

M$ Charging a rediculous sum for a unnecessary amount of cores?

Seems legit.

aimiami12Posted:

i want 10000s of cores in the new xbox damnit
16 IS UNACCEPTABLE

Billy431Posted:

highly, highly doubt this. Its just not realistic mainly because the cost involved in having that many cores.

RX8Posted:

AuntJemima wii U having graphics of an Xbox or PS3? I'd have to see it to believe it!
I don't care if sony makes there next console to come out before the next xbox. i will still be getting the next Xbox.


i still think the ps3 and xbox graphics will top the wiiU

-Robin-Posted:

wii U having graphics of an Xbox or PS3? I'd have to see it to believe it!
I don't care if sony makes there next console to come out before the next xbox. i will still be getting the next Xbox.

BorderlandPosted:

Ska inb4 The Million Dollar Console.
Rumors will be rumors.


hah, beat me to the punch.

CredsPosted:

Doubt it xbox already had overheating problems,

then they decide to put more than triple the amount

of cores, highly unlikely.