New rumors about next-gen Xbox CPU specs hit the web

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Microsoft is still not saying anything officially about their plans for the successor to the Xbox 360. That hasn't stopped a number of rumors about the console from leaking, however, and the most recent claims involve the next Xbox's processor.

The rumors talk on how AMD is creating the processor for Microsoft.
The CPU inside the console, code named Durango, has two modules, each with four x86 cores inside, according sources sharing these rumors. Each of those cores reportedly runs on a single thread at 1.6Ghz. Also, the cores each feature "a 32 KB instruction cache (I-cache) and a 32 KB data cache (D-cache), and the 4 cores in each module share a 2 MB level 2 (L2) cache. In total, the modules have 8 hardware threads and 4 MB of L2."

The Xbox 720 CPU apparently has a clock speed of 1.6 Ghz, which is actually half the speed of the cores inside the current Xbox 360. The Xbox 360, launched in 2005, has a PowerPC-based processor with three cores and a clock speed of 3.2 Ghz.

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DiorPosted:

I looks very similar to the PS3. This time round they are going to be the same console

BradPosted:

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whatsamod I heard about these specs not too long ago, I'm not hardware-savvy so I don't know if they are good, but I hope they are.


I'm the same, I don't know good from bad, but I have been doing some research and comparing these to the PS4 specs, these are pretty good.


There very similar to the PS4


Should be quite a close fight between Microsoft and Sony again then!

GossipPosted:

I dont get what the big deal is. Its just gonna be another Xbox. Who cares about all the internal stuff

ZyphrPosted:

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whatsamod I heard about these specs not too long ago, I'm not hardware-savvy so I don't know if they are good, but I hope they are.


I'm the same, I don't know good from bad, but I have been doing some research and comparing these to the PS4 specs, these are pretty good.


There very similar to the PS4

SOGPosted:

whatsamod I heard about these specs not too long ago, I'm not hardware-savvy so I don't know if they are good, but I hope they are.


I'm the same, I don't know good from bad, but I have been doing some research and comparing these to the PS4 specs, these are pretty good.

imgurPosted:

magiikmodderz Because Microsoft would halve the processing power in there next-gen console.

Seems legit.


Well the double I makes you seem legit.

HallPosted:

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TakeTheDamnPiLL its a rumor so who knows.


Rumors on here have been doing well with being correct lately...


This is true.


I believe they're well researched.


Definitely

neboPosted:

magiikmodderz Because Microsoft would halve the processing power in there next-gen console.

Seems legit.


Haha totally legit

magiikmodderzPosted:

Because Microsoft would halve the processing power in there next-gen console.

Seems legit.

imgurPosted:

Centurial
Zwrq
TakeTheDamnPiLL its a rumor so who knows.


Rumors on here have been doing well with being correct lately...


This is true.


I believe they're well researched.


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